Introduction:
Cancer and tuberculosis are two common diseases that affect health
worldwide. They affect various organs and typically present with
different clinical manifestations. However, these two diseases can
sometimes present with unusual but similar clinical manifestations,
leading to misdiagnosis of cancer and tuberculosis [1]. The thyroid
gland is not spared from this risk of diagnostic error. It is more
common for thyroid tuberculosis to be misdiagnosed as thyroid cancer
than the opposite [2,3] In fact, Thyroid tuberculosis is a great
mimicker and diagnostic chameleon and is prone to be diagnostic as
thyroid carcinoma [2,3]. However, it is very rare for thyroid cancer
to present as cervical tuberculosis. To our knowledge, only three cases
of thyroid carcinoma initially manifesting as a neck abscess have been
reported [4,5,6]. In this report, we describe a very rare case of an
adult who presented with symptoms resembling cervical tuberculosis and
pathological results ultimately revealed anaplastic thyroid carcinoma.