- A Case of Subsequent Papillary Carcinoma of the Thyroid gland and Hashimoto's Thyroiditis.
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Sang Woong Han, Yong Seon So, Seok Hwan Kim, Ki Hyun Kwon, Tae Hyeung Kim, Jong Soon Kim, Kwang Hoe Kim, Byung Doo Lee
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J Korean Endocr Soc. 1996;11(2):214-220. Published online November 7, 2019
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- The association of thyroid carcinoma and Hashimotos thyroiditis in same thyroid gland is controversial. Incidence of carcinoma who has Hashimotos thyroiditis has been reported from 0.5 to 22.5 per cent by Crile and by Hirabayashi et al. The reason that there are such great diffarences in the reported incidences of carcinoma in Hashimotos disease is the result of the way the material is reported. The carcinomas of the thyroid which occur in association with Hashirnotos thyroiditis are predominently papillary tumors of lower grade malignancy. Thyroid carcinoma need not be feared in patimts with Hashimotos thymiditis, if one examines the ghmd catefully. When patients with Hashimotos disease are treated with thyroxine, there is little or no tendency for Hashimotos disease propess to clinieally detectable carcinoma of the thymid, and the microcarcinoma does not appear. In this case, single thyroid nodule was detected in Hashiimotos disease patient who was treated with thyroxine. There was no significant volume change of thyroid nodule despite of TSH suppression therapy during six months. Therefore we perforrned FNABC twice, the results were highly suspicious thyroid malignancy and subtotoal thyroidectomy was performed. The final pathologic result was microscopic papillary carcinoma with background Hashlmotos thyroiditis. In conclusion, we experienced a case of subsequent microscopic papillary carcinoma of the thyroid in patient with Hashimotos thyroiditis who was TSH suppression therapy with thyroxine.
- A Case of Autonomously Functioning Thyroid Nodule Treated with Percutaneous.
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Min Ho Shin, Chun Hee Koo, Young Ju Park, Jeong Yim Lee, Tae Yong Park, Eun Sil Kim, Jong Soon Kim, Seung Soo Han
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J Korean Endocr Soc. 1994;9(3):258-264. Published online November 6, 2019
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- Autonomously functioning thyroid nodules(AFTNs) are so named because they presumably are independent of TSH for growth and function. In general, surgery and radioactive iodine are effective therapies but reluctant to use because of complications such as hypothyroidism or cosmetic problems.Percutaneous ethanol injection therapy(PEIT) under sonographic guidance has recently been introduced as alternative therapy. But its adverse effects such as severe local pain, subcutaneous hematoma or palsy of the recurrent nerve are not negligible, therefore sufficient skill is required.In this case, the levothyroxine therapy in reducing the size of colloid thyroid nodules was not apparent within three months. Therefore we selected another sclerosing therapeutic method such as percutaneous tetracycline injection(PTI) and followed up thyroid function test, thyroid scan, ultrasonographical size and volume of nodule. The results were as follows: 1) With 0.5-0.8 cc tetracycline injection for three times, the volume of nodule was reduced after PTI; About 2.3 X 1.7 X 0.7 cm sized nodule was reduced to about 1.3 X 1.0 X 0.5 cm sized nodule. 2) There were significant improvements of TFT(subclinical hyperthyroidism to euthyroidism) and thyroid scan(solitary hot nodule to completely ablated AFTN) during 9 months follow-up after PTI as compared with the base line study. In conclusion, we experienced good results in a 22-year-old woman suffered from AFTN treated with PTI and think that PTI could be the effective, safe, simple, well tolerable procedure in the treatment of AFTN.
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