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Primary thyroid lymphoma: a rare thyroid malignancy

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Rubina Mukhtar Department of Oncology, Multan Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy (MINAR), Multan, Pakistan
Rauf Khattak Multan Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy (MINAR), Multan, PAKISTAN
Abdul-Mateen Multan Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Radiotherapy (MINAR), Multan, PAKISTAN
Abstract
Incidence of thyroidal masses is very high with predominance in females. Most of these masses are benign. Malignancy can be of thyroid or non-thyroid origin. Surgery is treatment of choice in the former but not in latter. Primary thyroid lymphoma (PTL) is a rare cause of thyroid malignancy of non-thyroid origin which is highly treatable without surgery but early diagnosis is important requisite to have better outcome. Fine needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) is an important tool in early diagnosis of PTL, which enables doctors to treat patient better without major surgery and its morbidity. Two cases of primary thyroid lymphoma are hereby presented. The patient diagnosed on FNAC had better outcome than the one who had major surgery.
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Page(s) 775-777
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Published Journal: Journal of College of Physicians and Surgeons--Pakistan : JCPSP, Volume: 21, Issue: 12, Year: 2011

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