A Case of Primary Thyroid Tuberculosis Presenting with Multinodular Goiter

Thyroid tuberculosis is a very rare condition with rate of 0.1-1.15% even in countries high prevalence tuberculosis. In this presentation, we evaluated the management patient preoperative diagnosis benign tissue and pre-diagnosis multinodular goiter compression symptoms. After thyroidectomy our who had no special history due to detection Langerhans giant cell caseified granuloma-thyroid tuberculosis, postoperative thyroid replacement therapy infectious diseases outpatient control were planned. tuberkulosis not easy diagnose because there are specific If other foci detected after total thyroidectomy, close follow-up recommended without additional antituberculosis therapy. As incidence increases worldwide, as unusual involvement extrapulmonary tuberculosis; it should be kept mind differential nodular lesions gland.