갑상선 결핵-증례보고 및 문헌고찰

• 영문명: Tuberculosis of the Thyroid Gland - Report of Two Cases and Review of the Literatures
• 발행기관: 대한내분비외과학회
• 저자명: 박세염 이종근 유봉옥 권오경 주명진¹ Se Yeom Park M.D. Jong Geun Lee M.D. Bong Ok Yoo M.D. Oh Kyoung Kwon M.D. and Myoung Jin Joo M.D.¹
• 간행물 정보: 『The Koreran journal of Endocrine Surgery』5권2호, 100~108쪽, 전체 9쪽
• 주제분류: 의약학 > 면역학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2005.12.30

영문 초록

Purpose: Tuberculosis of the thyroid gland is very rare and some cases were reported in Korea since 1968. We experienced a case of tuberculous thyroiditis and found a old case in our medical center. This report is about the two case and the review of all cases reported about tuberculosis of the thyroid gland in Korea. Methods: We present the case of a 55-year-old woman with thyroid tuberculosis who has been treated with antituberculous medication because of tuberculous meningitis during 6 months. We performed thyroid isthmectomy and she is now taking the antituberculous drugs. We found a case of 40- year-old woman who underwent extended thyroid lobectomy, Lt. in 1985 at our medical center. We reviewed the 18 literatures with 29 cases of tuberculosis of the thyroid gland reported in Korea and analyzed total 31 cases (reported 29 cases and our 2 cases). Results: 28 patients were women and only 2 patients were over 60 years old. 26 patients had complained the neck mass. Duration of symptoms were below 6 months in 18 cases. There were associated symptoms like as weight loss, easy fatigue or generalized weakness, dysphagia, palpitation, fever, chills and/or anorexia. Only 9 patients had underlying tuberculosis - 2 meningitis, 2 pneumonia, 3 lymphadenopathy and 2 pneumonia combined with meningitis. But 3 patients were newly diagnosed as old or active pulmonary tuberculosis at the time of diagnosis of thyroid tuberculosis. Thyroid function was normal in 9 cases and abnormal in 5 cases. 3 cases were diagnosed nonoperatively and 15 patients of surgically treated 28 cases were underwent lobectomy. AFB stain was positive in only 13 cases and 2 cases were positive of culture with negative AFB stain. All of cases were diagnosed by pathology as granulomatous tuberculosis with caseous necrosis. Conclusion: Either surgical resection plus antituberculous medications or only medications are effective and recurrences were not reported after any initial treatments. So preoperative evaluation is very important and will guide the patient and the surgeon to the most effective management. (Korean J Endocrine Surg 2005;5:100-108)

키워드

갑상선, 결핵,Thyroid gland, Tuberculosis