title: Nodular Graves' disease with medullary thyroid cancer.
abstract: Co-existence of thyroid nodules with Graves' disease has been reported in various studies. 10-15% of such nodules harbor thyroid cancer with papillary thyroid cancer being the commonest. Medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) in nodules associated with Graves' disease is rare. On literature survey, we came across 11 such cases reported so far. We report a 62-year-old female with Graves' disease who also had a thyroid nodule that on fine-needle aspiration cytology and the subsequent postthyroidectomy histopathological examination was reported to be MTC.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
authors.forename: Shoukat Hussain
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
authors.forename: Tanveer Ahmed
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Rather
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
authors.forename: Rumana
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Makhdoomi
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Soura, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
authors.forename: Dharmender
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Malik
keywords: Calcitonin; Graves’ disease; medullary thyroid cancer; nodule; total thyroidectomy