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Rapidly growing thyroid carcinoma during pregnancy
K Kobayashi1, Y Tanaka, S Ishiguro
1Second Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Tottori University, Japan.
Journal of Surgical Oncology
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
We experienced two cases of papillary carcinoma of the thyroid during pregnancy. The thyroid carcinomas grew rapidly in early pregnancy. We speculate that human chorionic gonadotropin plays an important role in the rapid growth of thyroid carcinoma during pregnancy.