Endocrine Abstracts

Primary thyroid gland lymphomas account for less than 5% of all thyroid malignancies. They mainly occur in the setting of lymphocytic thyroiditis or Hashimoto’s disease. The majority are mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphomas and diffuse large B-cell lymphomas. There have not been any cases of thyroid lymphoma reported in children in the last 20 years.Our patient is a 9-year-old boy who was noted to have a lump on the right side of his neck in ...