Papillary carcinoma thyroid with metastasis to ectopic cervical thymus

Papillary carcinoma of thyroid is the most common type of thyroid neoplasm which is usually confined to the thyroid and tends to metastasize to regional lymph nodes. Distant metastasis occur in up to 15% of cases. Thymic metastasis from any malignant carcinoma is extremely rare with only four cases...

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Autores principales: Mushtaque, Majid, Naqash, Sameer H, Malik, Ajaz A, Malik, Rayees A, Khanday, Samina A, Khan, Parwez S
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3050764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21332990
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-9-22
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Sumario:Papillary carcinoma of thyroid is the most common type of thyroid neoplasm which is usually confined to the thyroid and tends to metastasize to regional lymph nodes. Distant metastasis occur in up to 15% of cases. Thymic metastasis from any malignant carcinoma is extremely rare with only four cases reported in medical literature. We report a case of papillary carcinoma of thyroid metastasizing to ectopic cervical thymus which has not been previously reported.

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