Unusual Presentation of Tuberculous Thyroid Abscess in a Background of Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis in a Chronic Hepatitis B Carrier

Tuberculosis of thyroid gland is a very rare disease. It has variable presentations and may be sometimes associated with autoimmune thyroiditis. We report a case of 45-year-old male, with left sided painless neck swelling, with a purulent discharging sinus over it associated with night sweats and lo...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Sakthivel Chinnakkulam Kandhasamy, Sunil Kumar, Anubhav Sangwan, Neelam Sahani, Gopalakrishnan Gunasekaran, Sunil Kumar Meena, Swapnil Singh Kushwaha
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2016-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Surgery
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/5295236