Multiple giant scalp metastases of a follicular thyroid carcinoma

BACKGROUND: The occurrence of skin metastases are rare events in the course of a follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) and usually indicate advanced tumor stages. The scalp is the most affected area of these metastases. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of a 76 year old Woman with multiple giant sca...

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Autores principales: Cupisti, Kenko, Ramp, Uwe, Raffel, Andreas, Krausch, Markus, Rehders, Alexander, Knoefel, Wolfram T
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2533320/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18694518
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-82
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: The occurrence of skin metastases are rare events in the course of a follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) and usually indicate advanced tumor stages. The scalp is the most affected area of these metastases. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of a 76 year old Woman with multiple giant scalp metastases of a follicular carcinoma. These metastases had been resected and wounds had been closed with mesh graft. The 14-months follow up is presented. CONCLUSION: We demonstrate another case with multicentric form. Because of its location and size a primary wound closure was not possible. A healing could be reached using vacuum therapy and mesh graft transplantation.

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