Tuberculosis with medullary carcinoma of thyroid; A clinical association, strange by st and ards

ABSTRACT

18 years old girl presented with right dominant lobe thyroid gl and in euthyyroid state. Radioisotope scanning revealed cold nodule and tine needle aspiration cytology reported follicular neoplasm. Subsequent histopathological examination revealed medullary carcinoma with tuberculosis. The medical literature abounds with evident association between chronic inflammatory process and neoplasia, considering chronic inflammation as risk factor for later. We searched the local and international medical literature in English language to find any association between neuro endocrine tumors and granulomatous inflammation. However to our knowledge no such association has so far been described, even in the form of clinical case report in any core medical journal