[Hashimoto's thyroiditis and thyroid cancer: a report of a clinical case and a review of the literature].
Considerable controversy exists concerning the existence of statistically significant relationship between Hashimoto's disease and thyroid cancer, since there is very discordance in the incidence reported in literature, ranging from 0.5% by Crile and Hazard (5) to as high as 22.5% by Hirabayashi and Lindsay (9). Within this context, the authors present a clinical case of a patient who previously underwent lobectomy for a nodular papillary cancer of the thyroid. The histological diagnosis after "totalization" procedure proved to be Hashimoto's thyroiditis on a previous cancer. Starting from this case, an accurate review of the existing literature is carried out and some pathogenetic theories are proposed on the correlation between this two lesions.
Zardo
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II Clinica Otorinolaringoiatrica, Università degli Studi La Sapienza, Roma.
Soldo
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Altissimi
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Parnasi
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Bertin
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D000328:Adult; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D013965:Thyroidectomy; D013967:Thyroiditis, Autoimmune / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D014463:Ultrasonography