TUBERCULOSIS OF THYROID GLAND

TB of Thyroid Gland

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Tuberculosis of the thyroid gland is extremely uncommon even in areas where tuberculosis is a common disease¹. Barely 200 cases of thyroid tuberculosis have been reported in world literature and almost all have been associated with tuberculosis elsewhere in the body². In most of the reported cases, patients were clinically and biochemically euthyroid. Although tuberculosis of the thyroid gland is uncommon, it should be included in differential diagnosis of every thyroid swelling.