فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

The incidence of tuberculosis is high and extrapulmonary tuberculosis is seen more frequently, thethyroid tuberculosis is rare. Thyroid tuberculosis is presented as thyroid nodule, thyroiditis or abscessformation. This condition should therefore be recognized whenever goiter is being treated,because it has an entirely different treatment. The aim of this report is to present thyroid tuberculosisin order to gain a better understanding of its clinical characteristic, diagnosis and treatmentwe present 9 cases of thyroid tuberculosis since 1995-2006 from north of Iran. They comprised 5patients with thyroiditis, 2 cases with abscess formation and 2 with thyroid nodules. All patientswere diagnosed using Fine Needle Aspiration (FNA) and treated by repeated surgery and antituberculosisdrugs. It is concluded that tuberculosis of thyroid should be kept in mind while treatingdiseases of the thyroid such as thyroid nodule, thyroiditis, thyrotoxicosis especially in communitieswith high prevalence of tuberculosis. The diagnosis of thyroid tuberculosis is facilitated byFNA and its treatment is achieved by simple surgery as well as anti-tuberculosis therapy.