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Title   Graves 병 환자에서의 갑상선암 ( Carcinoma of the Thyroid Gland in Patients with Graves' Disease )
Publicationinfo   1993 Jan; 025(02): 220-225.
Key_word   Thyroid carcinoma, Graves' disease
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Abstract   The occurrence of thyroid cancer in Graves disease was thought to be rare in the past, but recent reports and literatures suggest that the two diseases have some close relationship and patients with Graves disease have high possibility of occurence of thyroid carcinomas. In order to clarify these findings, we retrospectively analyzed one hundred patients with Graves disease who were undertaken subtotal thyroidectomies during the past 6 years from January, 1985 to December, 1990. The incidence of thyroid cancer in Graves disease was 7.0%(7 cases in 100 patients), includ- ing 3 cases found on postoperative histologic examinations, one case found during operation by frozen section of suspicious lymph nodes, and three cases preoperatively confirmed by cytology and/or biopsy, to be thyroid cancer with or without lymph node metastasis. The patients were all female and the age distributed from 21 to 56(mean=35.9). Postoperative histologic examination revealed that all the cases were papillary carcinomas. Tumor sizes in 4 cases in which hyperthyroidism was not properly controlled were O.l to 0.3 cm in diameter and those in 3 cases with normal thyroid function were 2.5 to 4 cm in diameter. There were 2 cases which had metastasis to regional lymph nodes. Neither recurrences nor mortalities have been observed for the past 6 years.
저 자   유환영(Hwan Young Yoo),윤여규(Yeo Kyu Yong),오승근(Seung Keun Oh)