Metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma of the thyroid gland, a case report

The thyroid gland is a known but an unusual site for metastatic tumors from various primary sites. Despite the fact that it is one of the largest vascular organs in the body, clinical and surgical cases have given an incidence of 3 % of secondary malignances of the organ. Nevertheless, thyroid metas...

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Autores principales: Hafez, Mohamed T, Hegazy, Mohamed A, Abd Elwahab, Khaled, Arafa, Mohammad, Abdou, Islam, Refky, Basel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3448520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22642938
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-3284-4-27
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author Hafez, Mohamed T
Hegazy, Mohamed A
Abd Elwahab, Khaled
Arafa, Mohammad
Abdou, Islam
Refky, Basel
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description The thyroid gland is a known but an unusual site for metastatic tumors from various primary sites. Despite the fact that it is one of the largest vascular organs in the body, clinical and surgical cases have given an incidence of 3 % of secondary malignances of the organ. Nevertheless, thyroid metastases are not an exceptional finding at autopsy, they are encountered in 2 % to 24 % of the patients with malignant neoplasm. Soft tissue sarcomas metastatic to the thyroid are extremely rare as the majority of thyroid metastasis are caused by tumors of the kidneys, lungs, mammary glands, ovaries , and colon or by melanomas. We report a case of 22-years-old woman with right leg rhabdomyosarcoma metastatic to the thyroid gland.
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spelling pubmed-34485202012-09-22 Metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma of the thyroid gland, a case report Hafez, Mohamed T Hegazy, Mohamed A Abd Elwahab, Khaled Arafa, Mohammad Abdou, Islam Refky, Basel Head Neck Oncol Case Report The thyroid gland is a known but an unusual site for metastatic tumors from various primary sites. Despite the fact that it is one of the largest vascular organs in the body, clinical and surgical cases have given an incidence of 3 % of secondary malignances of the organ. Nevertheless, thyroid metastases are not an exceptional finding at autopsy, they are encountered in 2 % to 24 % of the patients with malignant neoplasm. Soft tissue sarcomas metastatic to the thyroid are extremely rare as the majority of thyroid metastasis are caused by tumors of the kidneys, lungs, mammary glands, ovaries , and colon or by melanomas. We report a case of 22-years-old woman with right leg rhabdomyosarcoma metastatic to the thyroid gland. BioMed Central 2012-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC3448520/ /pubmed/22642938 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-3284-4-27 Text en Copyright © 2012 Hafez 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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title_full Metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma of the thyroid gland, a case report
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title_short Metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma of the thyroid gland, a case report
title_sort metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma of the thyroid gland, a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3448520/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22642938
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-3284-4-27
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