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[Differentiated thyroid carcinomas manifesting as toxic adenoma]
G Barrande1, J Bertherat, L Billaud
1Clinique des Maladies endocriniennes et métaboliques, Hôpital Cochin, Paris.
Presse Medicale (Paris, France : 1983)
|April 16, 1998
Abstract
Background:
Hot thyroid nodules are generally benign. We report two exceptional cases of thyroid carcinomas mimicking toxic adenomas.
Case Reports:
A 35-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman had thyroid carcinoma behaving as an autonomously hyperfunctioning nodule.
Discussion:
Only twenty similar cases have been reported in the literature. While a hot nodule on radio-iodine scan is unlikely to be malignant, the possibility of carcinoma should not be overlooked. Surgery should therefore be the preferred treatment of toxic adenoma.