Papillary thyroid carcinoma producing granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor is associated with neutrophilia and eosinophilia

Evangeline Vassilatou, Markos Fisfis, George Morphopoulos, Sotiria Savva, Eugenia Voucouti, Katerine Stefanoudaki, Ioanna Tzavara

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Thyroid tumors producing colony-stimulating factors associated with neutrophilia and/or eosinophilia are very rare and almost all of them concern anaplastic thyroid cancer. Only one case of papillary thyroid carcinoma associated with neutrophilia and one case of medullary thyroid carcinoma associated with eosinophilia have been reported.