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Acute airway failure secondary to thyroid metastasis from renal carcinoma
BACKGROUND: Secondary involvement of the thyroid gland by malignant metastases is uncommon. Acute respiratory crisis due to infiltration of the upper airways is a recognised complication of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma or thyroid lymphoma. Renal cell carcinoma is a tumour that metastasizes diffusely...
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BioMed Central
2008
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2254624/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18252002 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-14 |