Emergency Total Thyroidectomy for Bleeding Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma: A Viable Option for Palliation

Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is a rare and highly aggressive thyroid neoplasm. Bleeding from tumor is an uncommon, but potentially life-threatening complication requiring sophisticated intervention facilities which are not usually available at odd hours in emergency. We report the case of a 45...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Sunil, Joshi, Mohit Kumar
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3098547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21633624
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.78452
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description Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is a rare and highly aggressive thyroid neoplasm. Bleeding from tumor is an uncommon, but potentially life-threatening complication requiring sophisticated intervention facilities which are not usually available at odd hours in emergency. We report the case of a 45-year-old woman who presented with exsanguinating hemorrhage from ATC and was treated by emergency total thyroidectomy. The patient is well three months postoperatively. Emergency total thyroidectomy is a viable option for palliation in ATC presenting with bleeding.
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spelling pubmed-30985472011-06-01 Emergency Total Thyroidectomy for Bleeding Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma: A Viable Option for Palliation Kumar, Sunil Joshi, Mohit Kumar Indian J Palliat Care Case Report Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is a rare and highly aggressive thyroid neoplasm. Bleeding from tumor is an uncommon, but potentially life-threatening complication requiring sophisticated intervention facilities which are not usually available at odd hours in emergency. We report the case of a 45-year-old woman who presented with exsanguinating hemorrhage from ATC and was treated by emergency total thyroidectomy. The patient is well three months postoperatively. Emergency total thyroidectomy is a viable option for palliation in ATC presenting with bleeding. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3098547/ /pubmed/21633624 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.78452 Text en © Indian Journal of Palliative Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Emergency Total Thyroidectomy for Bleeding Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma: A Viable Option for Palliation
title Emergency Total Thyroidectomy for Bleeding Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma: A Viable Option for Palliation
title_full Emergency Total Thyroidectomy for Bleeding Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma: A Viable Option for Palliation
title_fullStr Emergency Total Thyroidectomy for Bleeding Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma: A Viable Option for Palliation
title_full_unstemmed Emergency Total Thyroidectomy for Bleeding Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma: A Viable Option for Palliation
title_short Emergency Total Thyroidectomy for Bleeding Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma: A Viable Option for Palliation
title_sort emergency total thyroidectomy for bleeding anaplastic thyroid carcinoma: a viable option for palliation
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3098547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21633624
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.78452
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