Incidental diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma due to persistently elevated procalcitonin in a patient with COVID-19 pneumonia: A case report

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World J Clin Cases. Jul 16, 2022; 10(20): 7171-7177
Published online Jul 16, 2022. doi: 10.12998/wjcc.v10.i20.7171

Table 2 Differential diagnoses of increased procalcitonin

Bacterial infection or sepsis

Medullary thyroid carcinoma

Acute respiratory disease syndrome

Pulmonary neuroendocrine hyperplasia

Aspiration pneumonia

Small cell or non-small cell cancer of the lung

Carcinoid tumor

Other neuroendocrine tumors

Breast cancer

Citation: Saha A, Mukhopadhyay M, Paul S, Bera A, Bandyopadhyay T. Incidental diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma due to persistently elevated procalcitonin in a patient with COVID-19 pneumonia: A case report. World J Clin Cases 2022; 10(20): 7171-7177
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DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v10.i20.7171