Papillary Microcarcinoma of Thyroid with Tuberculosis: An Exceptional Association

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease with pulmonary and extrapulmonary locations. Tuberculosis of the Thyroid gland is rare and patients generally don’t show any symptoms. The association of tuberculosis and papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is exceptional. As far as the authors know, less than ten cases have ever been reported in the English literature. The diagnosis was made on histopathological examination and treatment is surgical.

The aim of this work is to present a very rare association observed in a 53-years-old patient treated in the ENT tertiary referral center of Casablanca, Morocco for a thyroid nodule suspect of malignancy. The final histopathological examination found a papillary microcarcinoma of thyroid associated with tuberculosis.