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- Title
Thyroid carcinoma in an autonomously hyperfunctioning thyroid nodule.
- Authors
Khan, O.; Maclennan, K. A.; Ell, P. J.; Kurtz, A.; Williams, E. S.
- Abstract
A 44-year-old woman presented with hyperthyroidism and a nodule in her thyroid. I-scintigraphy of the gland showed concentration of the tracer within the nodule and suppressed activity in the rest of the gland. Histology of the resected thyroid proved the nodule to be a papillary carcinoma. The presence of carcinoma within an autonomous hyperactive thyroid in a patient with hyperthyroidism has been reported only rarely, and to the authors' knowledge such a case has never been reported in Great Britain. Furthermore, unlike previously reported cases, the carcinoma was confined solely to the nodule.
- Subjects
HYPERTHYROIDISM; THYROID diseases; THYROID gland tumors; PAPILLARY carcinoma; DISEASE complications
- Publication
Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1981, Vol 57, Issue 665, p172
- ISSN
0032-5473
- Publication type
journal article