title: Esophageal carcinoma masquerading as recurrent acute suppurative thyroiditis.
abstract: A 61-year-old woman had clinical features of acute suppurative thyroiditis that was recurrent and refractory to antibiotic therapy. The diagnosis of acute suppurative thyroiditis was established by a fine-needle aspiration biopsy procedure, yielding suppurative material from which anaerobic and aerobic bacteria grew. Subsequent investigation with a barium swallow study followed by esophagoscopy and biopsy confirmed extensive esophageal carcinoma with a fistulous tract extending into the perithyroidal region.
mesh_terms: D002277:Carcinoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012008:Recurrence; D013492:Suppuration; D013966:Thyroiditis / Q000175:diagnosis*