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Katsutaro Shimaoka, MD
Buffalo

Arch Intern Med. 1980;140(2):284-285.

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To the Editor.

—The article on atypical hyperthyroidism by Joel I. Hamburger, MD, in the January ARCHIVES (139:96-98, 1979) did not refer to another condition that may cause thyrotoxicosis. Involvement of the thyroid by metastatic neoplasm is relatively common in patients with cancer, but seldom causes thyroid dysfunction.¹ Hypothyroidism may develop after complete replacement of the thyroid by a tumor.¹ Although rare, thyrotoxicosis could also result from destruction of the thyroid by a rapidly growing metastatic tumor; we have reported such occurrence in a patient with a nodular, poorly differentiated lymphocytic lymphoma.² Since then, two additional cases appeared in the literature; one case was a pancreatic adenocarcinoma³ and the other, a breast carcinoma.⁴ However, such a phenomenon has not been observed in a primary thyroid cancer. Nontender, firm, and diffuse enlargement of the thyroid is found in association with a very low radioactive iodine uptake, . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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