title: Primary thyroid lymphoma: a rare thyroid malignancy.
abstract: Incidence of thyroidal masses is very high with predominance in females. Most of these masses are benign. Malignancy can be of thyroid or non-thyroid origin. Surgery is treatment of choice in the former but not in latter. Primary thyroid lymphoma (PTL) is a rare cause of thyroid malignancy of non-thyroid origin which is highly treatable without surgery but early diagnosis is important requisite to have better outcome. Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is an important tool in early diagnosis of PTL, which enables doctors to treat patient better without major surgery and its morbidity. Two cases of primary thyroid lymphoma are hereby presented. The patient diagnosed on FNAC had better outcome than the one who had major surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oncology, Multan Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy (MINAR), Multan. binamukhtar@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Rubina
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Mukhtar
authors.forename: Rauf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Khattak
authors.forename: Abdul
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mateen
mesh_terms: D000971:Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / Q000627:therapeutic use; D044963:Biopsy, Fine-Needle; D003520:Cyclophosphamide / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004317:Doxorubicin / Q000627:therapeutic use; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase / Q000097:blood; D016403:Lymphoma, Large B-Cell, Diffuse / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D011241:Prednisone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013961:Thyroid Gland / Q000473:pathology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014750:Vincristine / Q000627:therapeutic use
chemical_list: D014750:Vincristine; D004317:Doxorubicin; D003520:Cyclophosphamide; D007770:L-Lactate Dehydrogenase; D011241:Prednisone