Primary thyroid lymphoma: a comprehensive summary of two cases

Abstract

<p class="abstract"><span lang="EN-US">Thyroid lymphoma occurs rarely; constituting approximately 1-5% of all thyroid malignancies. Two cases of thyroid lymphoma are presented herewith. Both the patients were elderly females who presented with a rapidly enlarging anterior neck mass without cervical lymphadenopathy, leading to compressive symptoms like dysphagia, stridor and dyspnoea. Thyroid lymphoma is a great diagnostic and therapeutic challenge which requires high clinical suspicion with rapid and accurate diagnostic modalities to detect it as early recognition of this rare malignancy can lead to timely intervention and avoid morbidity associated with extensive surgery as chemotherapy and radiation are the mainstays of its treatment.</span></p>

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“…Ancillary tests like immunocytochemistry, cell block formation, liquid based cytology followed by histopathological examination and IHC have also broadened the utilization of FNAC for the definite diagnosis of many tumors including those arising from skin adnexa. [13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25] In chondroid syringoma, the fine needle aspirate is usually thick and has mucoid like consistency. A cytological criteria has also been documented for its definitive diagnosis which comprises of a prominent cellular component of epithelial and myoepithelial cells embedded in a fibrillary metachromatic chondromyxoid background.…”