J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.
ISSN 1880-1129

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J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 83(7): 702-706, 1982

Original article

A CASE OF BASEDOW’S DISEASE WITH HISTOLOGICALLY SARCOIDOSIS INVOLVING THE THYROID AND THE PARATHYROID GLAND

1st Department of Surgery, Iwate Medical University, School of Medicine
*) 1st Department of Pathology, Iwate Medical University, School of Medicin

Hiroshi Yoshida, Nobukazu Tomichi*), Motoo Ishida, Shunsuke Suzuki, Kazuo Takayama*), Jun Sasaki, Kanichi Yagawa*), Shozo Mori

A case of Basedow’s disease associated with sarcoidosis involving the thyroid and parathyroid gland is presented. Bilateral subtotal thyroidectomy was performed after the antithyroid drug treatment upon a 50 year-old woman with typical hyperthyroidism. Microscopic study of the surgical specimen revealed sarcoid granulomas in both the thyroid and parathyroid gland, the parathyroid gland, the histologic finding having been distinguished from that of de Quervain’s thyroiditis, tuberculosis and sarcoid tissue reaction. Bilateral hilar lymphadenopathy and other abnormal findings were not found in chest X-ray films. Reports of sarcoidosis of the thyroid gland and of the parathyroid gland are very rare in the literatures.

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