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Histiocytosis X involving thyroid gland: a case report
1Department of Surgery, Veterans General Hospital-Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Zhonghua Yi Xue Za Zhi = Chinese Medical Journal; Free China Ed
|October 1, 1994
Abstract:
Diffuse histiocytosis X involving thyroid gland is rare. A 10-year-old boy with progressively enlarged neck mass, skin rash over scalp and face, splinter hemorrhage, otitis externa, episodes of pneumothorax and abnormal liver function was hospitalized. Thyroid scan showed a nonfunctioning mass in the right lobe of the thyroid and needle aspiration biopsy suspected histiocytosis X. Right thyroid lobectomy was performed and revealed histiocytosis X in light and electron microscopic examinations.