Thyroid Tuberculosis in a Child: A Rare Entity

Thyroid tuberculosis is a rare disease even in countries where tuberculosis is endemic. Clinically tuberculosis is not often suspected in cases of thyroid nodule or swelling. We report a case of 11 years female child who presented with a thyroid swelling. Fine-needle aspiration cytology revealed cas...

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Autores principales: Bodh, Anita, Sharma, Neelam, Negi, Lalita, Chandel, Suman S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3969641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24696559
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2727.129090
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author Bodh, Anita
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description Thyroid tuberculosis is a rare disease even in countries where tuberculosis is endemic. Clinically tuberculosis is not often suspected in cases of thyroid nodule or swelling. We report a case of 11 years female child who presented with a thyroid swelling. Fine-needle aspiration cytology revealed caseating epithelioid granulomas and acid fast bacilli. Patient improved with antitubercular drugs. Tuberculosis may be considered as differential diagnosis of thyroid swelling.
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spelling pubmed-39696412014-04-02 Thyroid Tuberculosis in a Child: A Rare Entity Bodh, Anita Sharma, Neelam Negi, Lalita Chandel, Suman S J Lab Physicians Case Report Thyroid tuberculosis is a rare disease even in countries where tuberculosis is endemic. Clinically tuberculosis is not often suspected in cases of thyroid nodule or swelling. We report a case of 11 years female child who presented with a thyroid swelling. Fine-needle aspiration cytology revealed caseating epithelioid granulomas and acid fast bacilli. Patient improved with antitubercular drugs. Tuberculosis may be considered as differential diagnosis of thyroid swelling. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC3969641/ /pubmed/24696559 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2727.129090 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Laboratory Physicians http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3969641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24696559
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2727.129090
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