A 49-year-old Japanese woman was referred to our department for evaluation of a thyroid nodule. She underwent subtotal thyroidectomy with modified neck dissection for a follicular thyroid carcinoma, suspected on preoperative diagnosis. The histological diagnosis was tuberculous thyroiditis. She made an uneventful recovery and received antituberculous agents. At follow-up she remains well and is...

Subacute thyroiditis is an inflammatory disease of the thyroid that usually caused by a viral infection, this study aimed to estimate incidence subacute in patients at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital and determine epidemiological, clinical, biochemical, radiological characteristics as well treatment choices were employed patients, hopes improve care add body knowledge. This retrospective whic...

OBJECTIVE We wanted to describe the characteristic ultrasonography (US) features and clinical findings for making the diagnosis of subacute granulomatous thyroiditis. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 31 lesions from 27 patients were confirmed as subacute granulomatous thyroiditis by US-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy. We analyzed the ultrasonographic findings such as the lesion's size, m...

piration cytology (FNAC) has increased to around 5060% (1), chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis and small cell undifferentiated carcinoma (anaplastic carcinoma) are still being confused with thyroid lymphoma (2). No reports concerning the ultrasonographic (US) and computed tomographic (CT) features of primary mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma have yet been published in the Korean ra...