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
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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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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author Cupisti, Kenko
Ramp, Uwe
Raffel, Andreas
Krausch, Markus
Rehders, Alexander
Knoefel, Wolfram T
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Ramp, Uwe
Raffel, Andreas
Krausch, Markus
Rehders, Alexander
Knoefel, Wolfram T
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description 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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spelling pubmed-25333202008-09-11 Multiple giant scalp metastases of a follicular thyroid carcinoma Cupisti, Kenko Ramp, Uwe Raffel, Andreas Krausch, Markus Rehders, Alexander Knoefel, Wolfram T World J Surg Oncol Case Report 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. BioMed Central 2008-08-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2533320/ /pubmed/18694518 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-82 Text en Copyright © 2008 Cupisti et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Krausch, Markus
Rehders, Alexander
Knoefel, Wolfram T
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title Multiple giant scalp metastases of a follicular thyroid carcinoma
title_full Multiple giant scalp metastases of a follicular thyroid carcinoma
title_fullStr Multiple giant scalp metastases of a follicular thyroid carcinoma
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title_short Multiple giant scalp metastases of a follicular thyroid carcinoma
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url 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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