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| Year : 2020 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 83-85 |
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Uncommon affliction of a common disease - primary tuberculosis of thyroid gland
Anusree Majumder1, Debraj Sen2
1 Department of Pathology, Command Hospital, Pune, Maharashtra, India
2 Department of Radiodiagnosis and Imaging, Command Hospital, Pune, Maharashtra, India
Correspondence Address:
Anusree Majumder
Department of Pathology, Command Hospital, Pune - 411 040, Maharashtra
India
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DOI: 10.4103/IJPM.IJPM_719_18
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Tuberculosis (TB) continues to be a major public health problem in India. With an annual incidence rate of 2.8 million new cases, India accounts for a quarter of the global TB burden. Primary thyroid TB still remains a rare entity even in this era of global TB pandemic. Here we discuss a case of primary thyroid TB in a 22-year-old immunocompetent male patient presenting with a thyroid swelling followed by non-healing sinus tract after fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) procedure. TB is a known common cause for development of chronic sinuses and ulcers. However, the primary involvement of thyroid gland along with formation of non-healing sinus tract post FNAC make it a most unusual case posing a diagnostic challenge to the unsuspecting physician.
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