Oxyphilic adenoma - Case 8. |
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Clinical presentation: a 59-year-old woman was examined because of dyspnea. Two nodules were detected in the thyroid on an ultrasound examination.
Palpation: no abnormality.
Functional state: euthyoridism with TSH 1.48 mIU/L.
Ultrasonography: the thyroids were minimally-moderately hypoechogenic. There was an echonormal lesion in the central part of the right lobe, while a hypoechogenic nodule displaying a halo sign and perinodular blood flow in the left thyroid.
FNAC was performed form the nodule in the left lobe and resulted in oxyphilic tumor.
Histopathology disclosed Hürthle-cell adenoma.










