Unraveling a Diagnostic Dilemma: Coexisting Metastatic and Tuberculous Cervical Lymph Nodes in a Post-Ablative Thyroid Carcinoma Patient – A Case Report on Uncommon Dual Pathology

Authors

  • Farida Yasmin Senior Medical Officer, Institute of Nuclear Medicine & Allied Sciences (INMAS), Mitford, Dhaka
  • Afroza Naznin Senior Medical Officer, Institute of Nuclear Medicine & Allied Sciences (INMAS), Mitford, Dhaka.
  • Samira Sharmin Principal Medical Officer, Institute of Nuclear Medicine & Allied Sciences (INMAS), Mitford, Dhaka.
  • Hosne Ara Rahman Director & Chief Medical Officer, Institute of Nuclear Medicine & Allied Sciences (INMAS), Mitford, Dhaka.

Keywords:

Cervical lymphadenopathy, papillary thyroid carcinoma, metastasis, tuberculosis

Abstract

Tubercular lymphadenitis can mimic cervical lymph node metastasis from papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) due to similarities in the distribution and imaging characteristics of the affected lymph nodes. Here we report a rare case of simultaneous metastatic deposits and tuberculosis (TB) within the cervical lymph nodes of a patient with thyroid carcinoma after 5 years of radioiodine ablation.

Bangladesh J. Nuclear Med. 27(2): 313-316, 2024

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2025-04-13

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Unraveling a Diagnostic Dilemma: Coexisting Metastatic and Tuberculous Cervical Lymph Nodes in a Post-Ablative Thyroid Carcinoma Patient – A Case Report on Uncommon Dual Pathology. (2025). Bangladesh Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 27(2), 313-316. https://doi.org/10.3329/bjnm.v27i2.79230

Issue

Vol. 27 No. 2 (2024)

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Case Reports

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Unraveling a Diagnostic Dilemma: Coexisting Metastatic and Tuberculous Cervical Lymph Nodes in a Post-Ablative Thyroid Carcinoma Patient – A Case Report on Uncommon Dual Pathology. (2025). Bangladesh Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 27(2), 313-316. https://doi.org/10.3329/bjnm.v27i2.79230