Small Thyroid Nodule but Big Impact

In tuberculosis (TB) endemic countries like India, this is a common practice to attribute patient’s illness to TB even without microbiological confirmation. Furthermore, a false diagnosis may prove fatal as the underlying disease is left untreated, and the burden is amplified by avoidable potential...

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Autores principales: Singhai, Abhishek, Panda, Smritimayee
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7532822/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33072635
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/abr.abr_15_20
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description In tuberculosis (TB) endemic countries like India, this is a common practice to attribute patient’s illness to TB even without microbiological confirmation. Furthermore, a false diagnosis may prove fatal as the underlying disease is left untreated, and the burden is amplified by avoidable potential side effects of antitubercular drugs. We present a case of a 42-year-old female who presented to us with a typical presentation of disseminated TB but found to have metastatic thyroid carcinoma.
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spelling pubmed-75328222020-10-16 Small Thyroid Nodule but Big Impact Singhai, Abhishek Panda, Smritimayee Adv Biomed Res Case Report In tuberculosis (TB) endemic countries like India, this is a common practice to attribute patient’s illness to TB even without microbiological confirmation. Furthermore, a false diagnosis may prove fatal as the underlying disease is left untreated, and the burden is amplified by avoidable potential side effects of antitubercular drugs. We present a case of a 42-year-old female who presented to us with a typical presentation of disseminated TB but found to have metastatic thyroid carcinoma. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-06-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7532822/ /pubmed/33072635 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/abr.abr_15_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Advanced Biomedical Research http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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