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Unusual Presentation of Cystic Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

Papillary thyroid carcinoma is the most common thyroid malignancy, accounting for 80% of all thyroid cancers. The most common presentation of thyroid cancer is an asymptomatic thyroid mass or a nodule. Usually as thyroid enlarges, it extends in to mediastinum. Papillary thyroid carcinoma presentatio...

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Autores principales: Patil, Vijayraj S., Vijayakumar, Abhishek, Natikar, Neelamma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3485764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23133761
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/732715
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description Papillary thyroid carcinoma is the most common thyroid malignancy, accounting for 80% of all thyroid cancers. The most common presentation of thyroid cancer is an asymptomatic thyroid mass or a nodule. Usually as thyroid enlarges, it extends in to mediastinum. Papillary thyroid carcinoma presentation as multiple true cystic swelling extending from neck to anterior chest wall in subcutaneous plane is not present in the literature. We present a rare case of cystic papillary thyroid carcinoma which is presented as subcutaneous swelling with sinus formation.
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spelling pubmed-34857642012-11-06 Unusual Presentation of Cystic Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Patil, Vijayraj S. Vijayakumar, Abhishek Natikar, Neelamma Case Rep Endocrinol Case Report Papillary thyroid carcinoma is the most common thyroid malignancy, accounting for 80% of all thyroid cancers. The most common presentation of thyroid cancer is an asymptomatic thyroid mass or a nodule. Usually as thyroid enlarges, it extends in to mediastinum. Papillary thyroid carcinoma presentation as multiple true cystic swelling extending from neck to anterior chest wall in subcutaneous plane is not present in the literature. We present a rare case of cystic papillary thyroid carcinoma which is presented as subcutaneous swelling with sinus formation. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3485764/ /pubmed/23133761 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/732715 Text en Copyright © 2012 Vijayraj S. Patil et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3485764/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/732715
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