Tuberculosis of Thyroid with Vocal Cord Paralysis : A Report of A Case

Tuberculosis of the thyroid gland, a rare condition, was present in the case of a 45 year-old woman presenting her complaints as hoarseness and fever. We performed an operation and administered an antituberculosis treatment afterwards, observing a case of tuberculuous abscess of the thyroid gland as a primary sited location copying thyroid malignancy with left vocal

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