J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 82(11): 1390-1394, 1981
Original article
A CASE OF CAPILLARY HEMANGIOMA OF THE THYROID ASSOCIATED WITH HYPOTHYROIDISM
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*) First Department of Surgery, Iwate Medical University Yutaka Okuno*), Shunsuke Suzuki*), Norihiro Katoh*), Kazumi Okamoto*), Yutaka Kanamori*), Moto-o Ishida*), Hiroshi Yoshida*), Jun Sasaki*), Shozoh Mori*), Shinobu Ariyoshi**), Ryohei Katoh***), Shunichi Itoh***), Kanichi Yagawa***) |
The patient was a 7-year-old boy, with a bilateral goiter which contained two nodules in the isthmus. Retardation of growth was recognized, and examination revealed hypothyroidism.
Enucleation of thyroid nodule was performed and its microscopic examination revealed follicular adenoma. The specimen obtained from thyroid tissue surrounding the nodule showed the presence of capillary hemangioma occupying the large part with remains of a few thyroid acini. The histologic architecture accounts for the hypothyroidism in this case.
Considering that the hemangioma in this case is not an aggressively growing neoplastic disease, the patient has been kept well under the conservative treatmemt with thyroid hormon administration.
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