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Primary thyroid tuberculosis mimicking papillary carcinoma of thyroid: a rare case report.

Sabin BanmalaSarita K CManita RautRajesh PoudelSabin KarkiSuman Maharjan
Published in: Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) (2023)
With ultrasonography-guided fine-needle aspiration cytology, preoperative diagnosis of primary thyroid tuberculosis is quite challenging even in tuberculosis endemic countries. So, it should be considered one of the differential diagnoses despite negative relevant history and without clinical cervical lymph nodes involvement with cytology proven suspicious papillary thyroid cancer before proceeding for surgical intervention.
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