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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Okazaki-Hada, Mikiko
• Maruoka, Azusa
• Yamamoto, Masatoshi
• Ito, Mitsuru
• Hirokawa, Mitsuyoshi
• Nishikawa, Mitsushige
• Akamizu, Takashi
• Miyauchi, Akira
• Toyoda, Nagaoki

Titel

Poorly Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma Coexisting with Graves' Disease Involving T3 Thyrotoxicosis due to Increased D1 and D2 Activities

Ist Teil von

• Thyroid (New York, N.Y.), 2021-10, Vol.31 (10), p.1592

Ort / Verlag

United States

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

MEDLINE

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma is rare and patients are typically euthyroid. We report a novel rare case of poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma with triiodothyronine (T3) thyrotoxicosis. A 77-year-old man presented to Kuma Hospital due to a neck tumor. A thyroid ultrasonography revealed a 220-mL mass in the right lobe. Laboratory data showed low serum thyrotropin (TSH), low free thyroxine (fT4), and high free T3 (fT3) levels. Anti-TSH receptor antibodies and thyroid-stimulating antibodies were positive. I scintigraphy showed diffuse uptake only in the left thyroid lobe. The patient underwent a total thyroidectomy and histological examination identified as poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma. He was diagnosed with poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma coexisting with Graves' disease. The tumor showed elevated type 1 iodothyronine deiodinases (D1) and type 2 iodothyronine deiodinases (D2) activities compared with that of the left thyroid lobe. Increased D1 and D2 activities in poorly differentiated carcinoma resulted in T3 toxicosis with a high serum fT3/fT4 ratio.