Acute Thyroid Swelling in Renal Transplant Recipient

Tuberculosis (TB) of thyroid gland is rare entity even in solid organ transplant recipients who have a high risk of TB. Thyroid TB is easily diagnosed by fine needle aspiration cytology. The majority of cases require only antitubercular drugs for treatment, and surgical intervention is required only...

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Autores principales: Engineer, D. P., Prakash, S., Yadav, A., Kumhar, J., Biswas, A., Kunal, G., Goel, A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5704413/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29217885
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijn.IJN_335_16
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author Engineer, D. P.
Prakash, S.
Yadav, A.
Kumhar, J.
Biswas, A.
Kunal, G.
Goel, A.
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Prakash, S.
Yadav, A.
Kumhar, J.
Biswas, A.
Kunal, G.
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description Tuberculosis (TB) of thyroid gland is rare entity even in solid organ transplant recipients who have a high risk of TB. Thyroid TB is easily diagnosed by fine needle aspiration cytology. The majority of cases require only antitubercular drugs for treatment, and surgical intervention is required only in few patients. We here describe a case of thyroid TB presenting as an acute abscess in postrenal transplant recipient with a background of acute rejection treated with steroid and antithymocyte globulin.
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spelling pubmed-57044132017-12-07 Acute Thyroid Swelling in Renal Transplant Recipient Engineer, D. P. Prakash, S. Yadav, A. Kumhar, J. Biswas, A. Kunal, G. Goel, A. Indian J Nephrol Case Report Tuberculosis (TB) of thyroid gland is rare entity even in solid organ transplant recipients who have a high risk of TB. Thyroid TB is easily diagnosed by fine needle aspiration cytology. The majority of cases require only antitubercular drugs for treatment, and surgical intervention is required only in few patients. We here describe a case of thyroid TB presenting as an acute abscess in postrenal transplant recipient with a background of acute rejection treated with steroid and antithymocyte globulin. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5704413/ /pubmed/29217885 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijn.IJN_335_16 Text en Copyright: © 2017 Indian Journal of Nephrology 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Acute Thyroid Swelling in Renal Transplant Recipient
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title_short Acute Thyroid Swelling in Renal Transplant Recipient
title_sort acute thyroid swelling in renal transplant recipient
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5704413/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29217885
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijn.IJN_335_16
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