A Rare but Significant Cause of an Enlarging Neck Mass: A Case Report of Primary Thyroid Lymphoma

Primary thyroid lymphoma is a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that typically presents as a rapidly enlarging goiter in patients with a history of autoimmune thyroid disease. We present the evaluation, pitfalls in diagnosis, and treatment of a 49-year-old woman with diffuse large B-cell primary t...

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Autores principales: Goodwin, Scott, Carmichael, Kim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5649781/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29147348
http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/wjon515w
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description Primary thyroid lymphoma is a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that typically presents as a rapidly enlarging goiter in patients with a history of autoimmune thyroid disease. We present the evaluation, pitfalls in diagnosis, and treatment of a 49-year-old woman with diffuse large B-cell primary thyroid lymphoma presenting with airway obstruction.
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spelling pubmed-56497812017-11-16 A Rare but Significant Cause of an Enlarging Neck Mass: A Case Report of Primary Thyroid Lymphoma Goodwin, Scott Carmichael, Kim World J Oncol Case Report Primary thyroid lymphoma is a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that typically presents as a rapidly enlarging goiter in patients with a history of autoimmune thyroid disease. We present the evaluation, pitfalls in diagnosis, and treatment of a 49-year-old woman with diffuse large B-cell primary thyroid lymphoma presenting with airway obstruction. Elmer Press 2013-06 2013-07-15 /pmc/articles/PMC5649781/ /pubmed/29147348 http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/wjon515w Text en Copyright 2013, Goodwin et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ 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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