Abstract

RODRIGUEZ, Livia; SOSA-VALENCIA, Leonardo  and  SIVIRA, Pedro. Thyroid Papillary Carcinoma and Autoimmune Pancreatitis: A case study. Gen [online]. 2012, vol.66, n.4, pp.266-268. ISSN 0016-3503.

The objective of this work is the importance of using endoscopic ultrasound in patients with gastrointestinal disorders; this case is interesting given that it involves two unrelated pathologies, which were diagnosed by endoscopic ultrasound in a same patient. We talk about the immunological Pancreatitis and Papillary Carcinoma of Thyroid. The Papillary Carcinoma of Thyroid is the Endocrine Neoplasm that occurs in 80 % cases, affecting white women, with one survival rate greater than 90 %, if diagnosed in early stages. In recent years more and more frequently pancreatic inflammatory diseases caused by immunological mechanisms, which respond to treatment with steroids have been described. The availability of diagnostic tools based on the image, the histology and serology, established in recent years, served to determine accurately the etiology of these diseases. The case of female 48 years, diabetic type II, under regular treatment, whose reason for consultation was: the presence of diffuse abdominal pain, gas, as well as positive abdominal distension. The patient underwent upper digestive ecoendoscopy. It concludes: pancreas´s tail neoproliferative lesion, as well as, and increase in volume of the right thyroid lobe, etiology to be clarify. FNA of the lesion of the tail of the pancreas reported acinar, scattered cells, arranged in groups intermingled with mixed inflammatory exudate, with predominance of typical and reactive lymphocytes, histiocytes, consistent with Immunological Pancreatitis. FNA of thyroid reported groups of follicular cells arranged in plates and papillae with nuclear atypias, abundant dense cytoplasm, and nuclear enlargement with moderate anisonucleosis, chromatinic, with micronucleus, numerous cracks and nuclear pseudo inclusions, which concludes Thyroid Papillary Carcinoma. Also it was done Ig4, proving positive. The patient underwent surgery of the thyroid, currently responding well to medical treatment.

Keywords : Papillary Carcinoma of Thyroid; Immune Pancreatitis; endoscopic ultrasound.