Open AccessNodular Graves' disease with medullary thyroid cancer
Author(s) -
Shoukat H Khan,
Tanveer Ahmad Rather,
Rumana Makhdoomi,
Dharmender Malik
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
indian journal of nuclear medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 0972-3919
pISSN - 0974-0244
DOI - 10.4103/0972-3919.164022
Subject(s) - medicine , thyroid nodules , nodule (geology) , thyroid , thyroid cancer , graves' disease , medullary thyroid cancer , pathology , medullary cavity , papillary thyroid cancer , histopathological examination , disease , cancer , paleontology , biology
Co-existence of thyroid nodules with Graves' disease has been reported in various studies. 10-15% of such nodules harbor thyroid cancer with papillary thyroid cancer being the commonest. Medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) in nodules associated with Graves' disease is rare. On literature survey, we came across 11 such cases reported so far. We report a 62-year-old female with Graves' disease who also had a thyroid nodule that on fine-needle aspiration cytology and the subsequent postthyroidectomy histopathological examination was reported to be MTC.