A COMBINATION OF UNIFOCAL THYROID AUTONOM Y AND FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA - A CASE-REPORT

The case is reported of a 53-year-old man with differentiated thyroid carcinoma within a hot nodule and typical scintigraphic findings of a unifocal adenoma. Preoperative cytology revealed no malignancy. The pr eliminary histological diagnosis after hemithyroidectomy on the right side was follicular adenoma. The final histological evaluation, howeve r, revealed follicular carcinoma of the thyroid gland. As a result, a thyroidectomy was performed with postoperative radioiodine treatment. The combination of thyroid carcinoma and hot nodules is extremely rare . In all cases of rapid growing nodules or other abnormalities of the thyroid cytological and/or histological verification is mandatory.