Familial Thyroid Carcinoma
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In 1995 her mother was attending the Medical Clinic for bronchial asthma and noted to have a neck swelling which was associated with hoarseness of voice and difficulty in swallowing. A clinical examination followed by investigations proved that she was suffering from papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. Although familial thyroid carcinoma has been increasingly reported in the literature, we believe that these are the first two cases of familial thyroid carcinoma reported in Bahrain.
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