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.
Highlights
Tuberculosis of thyroid gland (TT), rather primary or secondary, is an extremely rare disease, even in countries where tuberculosis in an endemic disease.[1]
We report a case of 16-years old female presenting with primary TT which was diagnosed on cytology
Mantoux test resulted in 22mm induration at 48 hours
Summary
Prashant Goyal,[1] Deepti Mittal,[1] Soumyesh Ghosh,[1] Dipti Agrawal,[2] Shelly Sehgal,[1] Sompal Singh[1]
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