Cancer in the thyroid is not always thyroid cancer

Katherine E. Akester, Noel Somasundaram, Salvador Diaz-Cano, Ashley B. Grossman

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Most clinicians assume that a thyroid mass which appears to be malignant is most likely a tumour arising from thyroid cells. We present a case where the thyroid malignancy was associated with a degree of systemic clinical and biochemical disturbance which suggested alternative diagnoses, and in which fine-needle aspiration revealed that the patient had a thyroid lymphoma …