Unusual presentation of papillary thyroid carcinoma: about two cases.
The papillary carcinoma is the most common cancer of thyroid but its presentation may be unexpected. In the first case, a 18-year-old girl complained of a painful enlargement of the right thyroid lobe. Upon the basis of a CT scan revealing punctuate calcifications suggesting psammoma bodies and a right-sided cold nodule on thyroid radioiodine scanning, the patient had a thyroidectomy. The second case was a discovery of papillary carcinoma in a 49-year-old woman who had a thyroidectomy for Graves' disease. This association may not be fortuitous. The cancer could be more aggressive in this group of patients, as TSI play a pathogenic role.
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Service de Médecine Interne Générale et Endocrinologie, Université Catholique de Louvain, Cliniques Universitaires UCL de Mont-Godinne, Yvoir, Belgique.
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Trigaux
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Delos
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Donckier
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D000293:Adolescent; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008875:Middle Aged; D013960:Thyroid Function Tests; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D013965:Thyroidectomy