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Table 1 Epidemiological and clinical characteristics of patients

From: Primary thyroid lymphoma: a case series

Case

Gender

Age

Medical history

Symptoms

Physical examniation

Latencyperiod

Cervical ultrasound

FT4 /TSH

LDH

1

female

63

Breast cancer

dysphonia

Cervical mass measuring 7x7cm

3 months

multinodular goiter with a large hypoechoic left isthmo-lobar nodule with lobulated contours

TIRADS 5 (Fig. 1A, B)

Normal

1xnormal

2

Male

79

-Asthma

-diabetes

-hypothyroid

-Dysphagia

-Shortness of breath

-goitre

-goitre

-mass in the isthmus measuring 4 cm

6 months

Nodule in the isthmus hypechoic

TIRADS 5

Hypothyroid

1xnormal

3

female

95

None

Dysphagia

Dyspnea

dysphonia

Mass fixed, measuring 12x8 cm

15 years

Nodule in the right lobe,with heterogeneous

Structures (Fig. 1C)

-cervical lymhadenopathy

Normal

7xnormal

4

Male

69

None

Dysphonia

dysphagia

fixedMass, measuring 10 cm,

-cervical lymhadenopathy

2 months

The right lobe is enlarged measuring 10.5X5.6X6 cm irregular limit, vascularized (Fig. 1D)

- cervical lymhadenopathy

TIRADS 5

Normal

3xnormal

5

Male

75

None

Dysphagia

Goiter

Mass in the isthmus measuring 3 cm

6 months

Nodule on the isthmus and left lobe

TIRADS 5

Normal

NA