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Neglected Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Seven Years after Initial Diagnosis

Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common epithelial thyroid tumor, accounting for more than 80% of all thyroid tumors. Recent advances in ultrasonographic screening and US-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) have facilitated the early detection and diagnosis of papillary thyroid...

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Autores principales: Spartalis, Eleftherios D., Karatzas, Theodore, Charalampoudis, Petros, Vergadis, Chrysovalantis, Dimitroulis, Dimitrios
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3557642/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23401818
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/148973
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author Spartalis, Eleftherios D.
Karatzas, Theodore
Charalampoudis, Petros
Vergadis, Chrysovalantis
Dimitroulis, Dimitrios
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Karatzas, Theodore
Charalampoudis, Petros
Vergadis, Chrysovalantis
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description Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common epithelial thyroid tumor, accounting for more than 80% of all thyroid tumors. Recent advances in ultrasonographic screening and US-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) have facilitated the early detection and diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinomas. In exceptionally rare cases, papillary thyroid tumors may assume enormous dimensions due to recurrent disease or the patient's negligence of the problem. We report an extremely rare case of a 72-year-old woman presented with a neglected giant exophytic papillary thyroid carcinoma with hemorrhagic ulcers. Computed tomography showed a mass measured 17 × 12 cm that caused a displacement of the trachea to the right side and reached the mediastinum. After bleeding management, patient was discharged. The patient was fully aware of her situation, but she denied any further therapeutic management.
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spelling pubmed-35576422013-02-11 Neglected Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Seven Years after Initial Diagnosis Spartalis, Eleftherios D. Karatzas, Theodore Charalampoudis, Petros Vergadis, Chrysovalantis Dimitroulis, Dimitrios Case Rep Oncol Med Case Report Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common epithelial thyroid tumor, accounting for more than 80% of all thyroid tumors. Recent advances in ultrasonographic screening and US-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) have facilitated the early detection and diagnosis of papillary thyroid carcinomas. In exceptionally rare cases, papillary thyroid tumors may assume enormous dimensions due to recurrent disease or the patient's negligence of the problem. We report an extremely rare case of a 72-year-old woman presented with a neglected giant exophytic papillary thyroid carcinoma with hemorrhagic ulcers. Computed tomography showed a mass measured 17 × 12 cm that caused a displacement of the trachea to the right side and reached the mediastinum. After bleeding management, patient was discharged. The patient was fully aware of her situation, but she denied any further therapeutic management. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-01-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3557642/ /pubmed/23401818 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/148973 Text en Copyright © 2013 Eleftherios D. Spartalis 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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Spartalis, Eleftherios D.
Karatzas, Theodore
Charalampoudis, Petros
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Dimitroulis, Dimitrios
Neglected Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Seven Years after Initial Diagnosis
title Neglected Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Seven Years after Initial Diagnosis
title_full Neglected Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Seven Years after Initial Diagnosis
title_fullStr Neglected Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Seven Years after Initial Diagnosis
title_full_unstemmed Neglected Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Seven Years after Initial Diagnosis
title_short Neglected Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Seven Years after Initial Diagnosis
title_sort neglected papillary thyroid carcinoma seven years after initial diagnosis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3557642/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23401818
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/148973
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