Palliative Radiation in Primary Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Thyroid: A Rare Case Report

Primary squamous cell carcinoma of the thyroid is an extremely rare neoplasm with aggressive behavior. Until date, only around 60 cases have been reported in the literature. Primary treatment of the patient is radical surgery. With optimum treatment survival is not more than 6 months in this aggress...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Ghoshal, Sushmita, Bhattacharyya, Tapesh, Sood, Ashwani, Tyagi, Ruchita
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3853399/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24347911
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.121541
_version_ 1782294628058267648
author Ghoshal, Sushmita
Bhattacharyya, Tapesh
Sood, Ashwani
Tyagi, Ruchita
author_facet Ghoshal, Sushmita
Bhattacharyya, Tapesh
Sood, Ashwani
Tyagi, Ruchita
author_sort Ghoshal, Sushmita
collection PubMed
description Primary squamous cell carcinoma of the thyroid is an extremely rare neoplasm with aggressive behavior. Until date, only around 60 cases have been reported in the literature. Primary treatment of the patient is radical surgery. With optimum treatment survival is not more than 6 months in this aggressive malignancy. However in our patient surgery it was not possible because of unresectability of the mass due to encroachment of major vessels. Hence, we have delivered radiotherapy alone, with which effective palliation could be achieved and patient is leading a good quality-of-life for last 1 year.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-3853399
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2013
publisher Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-38533992013-12-16 Palliative Radiation in Primary Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Thyroid: A Rare Case Report Ghoshal, Sushmita Bhattacharyya, Tapesh Sood, Ashwani Tyagi, Ruchita Indian J Palliat Care Case Report Primary squamous cell carcinoma of the thyroid is an extremely rare neoplasm with aggressive behavior. Until date, only around 60 cases have been reported in the literature. Primary treatment of the patient is radical surgery. With optimum treatment survival is not more than 6 months in this aggressive malignancy. However in our patient surgery it was not possible because of unresectability of the mass due to encroachment of major vessels. Hence, we have delivered radiotherapy alone, with which effective palliation could be achieved and patient is leading a good quality-of-life for last 1 year. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3853399/ /pubmed/24347911 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.121541 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Palliative Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Ghoshal, Sushmita
Bhattacharyya, Tapesh
Sood, Ashwani
Tyagi, Ruchita
Palliative Radiation in Primary Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Thyroid: A Rare Case Report
title Palliative Radiation in Primary Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Thyroid: A Rare Case Report
title_full Palliative Radiation in Primary Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Thyroid: A Rare Case Report
title_fullStr Palliative Radiation in Primary Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Thyroid: A Rare Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Palliative Radiation in Primary Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Thyroid: A Rare Case Report
title_short Palliative Radiation in Primary Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Thyroid: A Rare Case Report
title_sort palliative radiation in primary squamous cell carcinoma of thyroid: a rare case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3853399/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24347911
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.121541
work_keys_str_mv AT ghoshalsushmita palliativeradiationinprimarysquamouscellcarcinomaofthyroidararecasereport
AT bhattacharyyatapesh palliativeradiationinprimarysquamouscellcarcinomaofthyroidararecasereport
AT soodashwani palliativeradiationinprimarysquamouscellcarcinomaofthyroidararecasereport
AT tyagiruchita palliativeradiationinprimarysquamouscellcarcinomaofthyroidararecasereport

Ejemplares similares