10.6084/m9.figshare.97566.v1
Salvador J. Diaz-Cano
Salvador J.
Diaz-Cano
A B Grossman
A
B Grossman
K E Akester
K
E Akester
N Somasundaram
N
Somasundaram
Cancer in the thyroid is not always thyroid cancer
figshare
2012
diagnosis
lymphoma
pathology
thyroid
Medicine
Cancer
2012-11-15 15:00:17
Journal contribution
https://figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Cancer_in_the_thyroid_is_not_always_thyroid_cancer/97566
<p>Most clinicians assume that a thyroid mass which appears to be malignant is most likely a tumour arising from thyroid cells. We present a case where the thyroid malignancy was associated with a degree of systemic clinical and biochemical disturbance which suggested alternative diagnoses, and in which fine-needle aspiration revealed that the patient had a thyroid lymphoma. Gastric biopsy showed that this was a primary gastric diffuse B cell lymphoma. Subsequent management provided a number of challenging and overlapping problems, and the patient eventually died from this high-grade malignancy. We review the prevalence, presentation, diagnosis and management of lymphomas presenting as thyroid masses, and underline the problems in management when there is multi-system disease.</p>