TUBERCULOSIS OF THYROID GLAND MASQUERADING AS A NEOPLASM OF THYROID GLAND IN POST-COVID ERA
*Dr. Soumya Banerjee MBBS, Dr. Anowar Ali Mallick MBBS MS FMAS, Dr. Amit Kumar Samanta MBBS DGO M.S F. MAS FACS FAIS FIAGES, Dr. Gautam Das MBBS MS
ABSTRACT
Tuberculosis involving thyroid gland is a very rare clinical entity even in a country like India where tuberculosis is endemic. In Post-COVID era, tuberculosis programs in India facing tough challenges leading to increasing endemicity. We present a case report of a 52 years female patient, who present to our OPD as cytological diagnosed case of thyroid neoplasm which later finally diagnosed as a Tuberculosis of thyroid gland. In the background of Indian sub continental perspective, tuberculosis of thyroid gland should be our differential diagnosis for each cases of Thyroid neoplasm in spite of the rarity of the disease.
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