Cytological Diagnosis of Primary Thyroid Tuberculosis

Authors

  • Prashant Goyal Department of Pathology, Swami Dayanand Hospital, Delhi, 110095, India.
  • Deepti Mittal Department of Pathology, Swami Dayanand Hospital, Delhi, 110095, India.
  • Soumyesh Ghosh Department of Pathology, Swami Dayanand Hospital, Delhi, 110095, India.
  • Dipti Agrawal Department of Gynaecology, Swami Dayanand Hospital, Delhi-110095, India.
  • Shelly Sehgal Department of Pathology, Swami Dayanand Hospital, Delhi, 110095, India.
  • Sompal Singh Department of Pathology, Swami Dayanand Hospital, Delhi, 110095, India.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31729/jnma.2700

Keywords:

cytology; granuloma; thyroid; tuberculosis.

Abstract

Primary thyroid tuberculosis is an extremely rare disease, even in countries where other forms of tuberculosis are abundant. TT has no age bar but usually affects women in fourth and fifth decade. Hereby, we report a case of 16-years-old girl presented with complaint of progressively increasing, painful thyroid swelling. Diagnosis of TT was made on cytology and there was no evidence of involvement of any other organ by tuberculosis. Despite of its rarity, TT is usually misdiagnosed. So, a clinician should always consider this entity in the differential diagnosis of thyroid swelling. Fine needle aspiration cytology is the best diagnostic method and can result in the avoidance of unnecessary thyroid surgeries.

Keywords: cytology; granuloma; thyroid; tuberculosis.

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Published

2015-03-31

How to Cite

Goyal, P., Mittal, D., Ghosh, S., Agrawal, D., Sehgal, S., & Singh, S. (2015). Cytological Diagnosis of Primary Thyroid Tuberculosis. Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 53(197), 28–30. https://doi.org/10.31729/jnma.2700

Issue

Vol. 53 No. 197 (2015)

Section

Case Reports

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