To Be or Not TB

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 2008 English Publisher:SAGE PublicationsJournal:Thyroid, volume 18, pages 77-80 (issn: 1050-7256, eissn: 1557-9077,

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Authors: Andrea, Tom; Diana, Dean; John, Wilson;

doi: 10.1089/thy.2007.0146

pmid: 18302521

To Be or Not TB

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Abstract

A 20-year-old Somali woman presented with a tender, enlarging neck mass in the setting of weight loss and tachycardia. This was initially thought to be a thyroid storm. On further investigation, she had suppurative thyroiditis from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This case illustrates a high prevalence of extrapulmonary tuberculosis (TB) in foreign-born individuals and the necessity to consider TB in the differential diagnosis of an enlarging neck mass.

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Mayo Clinic
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Keywords

Adult, Diagnosis, Differential, Thyroid Gland, Humans, Tuberculosis, Female, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Thyroid Crisis, Thyroiditis, Suppurative, Ultrasonography

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