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Thyroid Lymphoma

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Abstract

The thyroid may be involved secondarily by lymphoma from other sites in the body or by leukemic infiltrates (1). Most primary thyroidal lymphomas are B cell types, but both Hodgkin’s lymphoma (2,3) and T-cell lymphoma (4) may occur.

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  1. James Oertel
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  2. Yolanda Oertel
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  1. Department of Medicine, Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC, USA

    Leonard Wartofsky MD, MPH, MACP (Chairman, Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Georgetown, Howard) (Chairman, Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Georgetown, Howard)

  2. Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Washington, DC, USA

    Leonard Wartofsky MD, MPH, MACP (Chairman, Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Georgetown, Howard) (Chairman, Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Georgetown, Howard)

  3. George Washington University of Schools of Medicine, Washington, DC, USA

    Leonard Wartofsky MD, MPH, MACP (Chairman, Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Georgetown, Howard) (Chairman, Professor of Medicine and Physiology, Clinical Professor of Medicine, Georgetown, Howard)

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Oertel, J., Oertel, Y. (2000). Thyroid Lymphoma. In: Wartofsky, L. (eds) Thyroid Cancer. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-199-2_41

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