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Case Reports

. 2017 Mar 31;1(1):2473974X17701092.

doi: 10.1177/2473974X17701092. eCollection 2017 Jan-Mar.

Cholesterol Granuloma of the Thyroid Mimicking Malignancy

Won Woong Kim^{1

2}

Affiliations

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
² Department of Surgery, Armed Forces Capital Hospital, Korea.

PMID: 30480180
PMCID: PMC6239044
DOI: 10.1177/2473974X17701092

Case Reports

Cholesterol Granuloma of the Thyroid Mimicking Malignancy

Won Woong Kim. OTO Open. 2017.

. 2017 Mar 31;1(1):2473974X17701092.

doi: 10.1177/2473974X17701092. eCollection 2017 Jan-Mar.

Author

Won Woong Kim^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea.
² Department of Surgery, Armed Forces Capital Hospital, Korea.

PMID: 30480180
PMCID: PMC6239044
DOI: 10.1177/2473974X17701092

No abstract available

Keywords: cholesterol; granuloma; thyroid.

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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: None.

Figures

Figure 1. — Figure 1.
Neck ultrasonography of cholesterol granuloma, which is 0.5 × 0.5 cm in size and has an irregular margin. This tumor is also a heterogeneous, taller than wide, and hypoechoic.

Figure 2. — Figure 2.
Multiple cholesterol crystals were arranged in irregular arrays in the thyroid (×40) and surrounded by histiocytes and giant cells (×200).

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