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Acute tuberculous abscess of the thyroid gland
Hemant Parmar1, Mohammed Hashmi, Ashish Rajput
1Department of Radiology, King Edward VII Memorial Hospital, Parel, India. kemrad@vsnl.com
Australasian Radiology
|June 13, 2002
Abstract:
Isolated tuberculous thyroid abscess is an extremely rare form of infection of the thyroid gland. We present a case of a female patient who presented with an acute abscess of thyroid gland associated with pain and fever and without cervical lymphadenopathy. We describe the pathology of the disease and the imaging findings with their differential diagnosis.