Rare Tumors (Jan 2012)

Primary mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue thyroid lymphoma: a rare thyroid neoplasm of extrathyroid origin

  • Dimitrios Hadjidakis,
  • Sotirios A. Raptis,
  • George Dimitriadis,
  • Dimitrios Lapatsanis,
  • Melpomeni Peppa,
  • Panagiotis Nikolopoulos,
  • Penelope Korkolopoulou

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4081/rt.2012.e2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. e2 – e2

Abstract

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Primary thyroid lymphoma is a rare malignancy, representing 2-8% of all thyroid malignancies and 1-2% of all extranodal lymphomas. The majority of cases concern non-Hodgkin`s lymphoma of B cell origin, following by Hodgkin’s disease, T cell lymphomas and rarely marginal zone B-cell mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphomas. MALT lymphomas have been associated with long-standing autoimmune Hashimoto`s thyroiditis. We present the case of a 44-years-old woman with thyroid MALT lymphoma in the background of multinodular goiter of autoimmune origin.

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