Tuberculosis of the Thyroid in a Child: A Rare cause of Thyromegaly

Tuberculosis of thyroid gland is extremely rare in children. We describe the case of a 6-year girl child, presenting with a multinodular thyroid swelling. Fine needle aspiration cytology showed extensive necrosis with few epithelioid cell granulomas and occasional acid-fast bacilli, suggesting a dia...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Sugandha, Girhotra, Manish, Zafar, Naushad, Gupta, Ruchika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4715887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26816678
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author Sharma, Sugandha
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description Tuberculosis of thyroid gland is extremely rare in children. We describe the case of a 6-year girl child, presenting with a multinodular thyroid swelling. Fine needle aspiration cytology showed extensive necrosis with few epithelioid cell granulomas and occasional acid-fast bacilli, suggesting a diagnosis of tuberculosis. The child was put on anti-tuberculous drugs with significant improvement. Tuberculosis of the thyroid gland, although rare, should be considered in differential diagnosis of thyroid swelling, especially in endemic areas.
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spelling pubmed-47158872016-01-26 Tuberculosis of the Thyroid in a Child: A Rare cause of Thyromegaly Sharma, Sugandha Girhotra, Manish Zafar, Naushad Gupta, Ruchika APSP J Case Rep Case Report Tuberculosis of thyroid gland is extremely rare in children. We describe the case of a 6-year girl child, presenting with a multinodular thyroid swelling. Fine needle aspiration cytology showed extensive necrosis with few epithelioid cell granulomas and occasional acid-fast bacilli, suggesting a diagnosis of tuberculosis. The child was put on anti-tuberculous drugs with significant improvement. Tuberculosis of the thyroid gland, although rare, should be considered in differential diagnosis of thyroid swelling, especially in endemic areas. EL-MED-Pub 2016-01-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4715887/ /pubmed/26816678 Text en Copyright © 2016 AJCR http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sharma, Sugandha
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Zafar, Naushad
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Tuberculosis of the Thyroid in a Child: A Rare cause of Thyromegaly
title Tuberculosis of the Thyroid in a Child: A Rare cause of Thyromegaly
title_full Tuberculosis of the Thyroid in a Child: A Rare cause of Thyromegaly
title_fullStr Tuberculosis of the Thyroid in a Child: A Rare cause of Thyromegaly
title_full_unstemmed Tuberculosis of the Thyroid in a Child: A Rare cause of Thyromegaly
title_short Tuberculosis of the Thyroid in a Child: A Rare cause of Thyromegaly
title_sort tuberculosis of the thyroid in a child: a rare cause of thyromegaly
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4715887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26816678
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