title: Unusual presentation of papillary thyroid carcinoma: about two cases.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Service de Médecine Interne Générale et Endocrinologie, Université Catholique de Louvain, Cliniques Universitaires UCL de Mont-Godinne, Yvoir, Belgique.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Heureux
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Michel
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Trigaux
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Delos
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Donckier
mesh_terms: 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