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Metastasis of distal esophageal carcinoma to the thyroid with presentation simulating primary thyroid carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature

Metastasis to the thyroid is extremely rare. There is a lack of awareness of and adequate preparation for this situation, especially in an individual without a past history of malignancy. We describe a rare case of a 61-year-old man in whom a primary distal esophageal carcinoma gave rise to a metast...

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Autores principales: Chen, En-dong, Cheng, Pu, Yan, Xing-qiang, Ye, Yun-liang, Chen, Cheng-ze, Ji, Xiu-huan, Zhang, Xiao-hua
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4001107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24755371
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-12-106
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author Chen, En-dong
Cheng, Pu
Yan, Xing-qiang
Ye, Yun-liang
Chen, Cheng-ze
Ji, Xiu-huan
Zhang, Xiao-hua
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Cheng, Pu
Yan, Xing-qiang
Ye, Yun-liang
Chen, Cheng-ze
Ji, Xiu-huan
Zhang, Xiao-hua
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description Metastasis to the thyroid is extremely rare. There is a lack of awareness of and adequate preparation for this situation, especially in an individual without a past history of malignancy. We describe a rare case of a 61-year-old man in whom a primary distal esophageal carcinoma gave rise to a metastatic palpable mass in the thyroid gland. Palliative bilateral near-total thyroidectomy was performed with pathology showing squamous cell carcinoma and tracheostomy was carried out simultaneously due to airway compression with related symptoms. A review of the literature only reveals 4 similar cases. Secondary neoplasm of the thyroid mimicking a primary malignant lesion is seldom encountered, however, in order to make appropriate treatment, the most critical problem is to distinguish the difference between the above two and the final diagnosis can only be confirmed on pathologic examination. Although the prognosis of thyroid metastasis is commonly felt to be poor, improvement of living quality and prolongation of survival may be obtained in such patients through correct diagnosis and treatment.
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spelling pubmed-40011072014-04-29 Metastasis of distal esophageal carcinoma to the thyroid with presentation simulating primary thyroid carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature Chen, En-dong Cheng, Pu Yan, Xing-qiang Ye, Yun-liang Chen, Cheng-ze Ji, Xiu-huan Zhang, Xiao-hua World J Surg Oncol Case Report Metastasis to the thyroid is extremely rare. There is a lack of awareness of and adequate preparation for this situation, especially in an individual without a past history of malignancy. We describe a rare case of a 61-year-old man in whom a primary distal esophageal carcinoma gave rise to a metastatic palpable mass in the thyroid gland. Palliative bilateral near-total thyroidectomy was performed with pathology showing squamous cell carcinoma and tracheostomy was carried out simultaneously due to airway compression with related symptoms. A review of the literature only reveals 4 similar cases. Secondary neoplasm of the thyroid mimicking a primary malignant lesion is seldom encountered, however, in order to make appropriate treatment, the most critical problem is to distinguish the difference between the above two and the final diagnosis can only be confirmed on pathologic examination. Although the prognosis of thyroid metastasis is commonly felt to be poor, improvement of living quality and prolongation of survival may be obtained in such patients through correct diagnosis and treatment. BioMed Central 2014-04-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4001107/ /pubmed/24755371 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-12-106 Text en Copyright © 2014 Chen 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 credited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Chen, En-dong
Cheng, Pu
Yan, Xing-qiang
Ye, Yun-liang
Chen, Cheng-ze
Ji, Xiu-huan
Zhang, Xiao-hua
Metastasis of distal esophageal carcinoma to the thyroid with presentation simulating primary thyroid carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature
title Metastasis of distal esophageal carcinoma to the thyroid with presentation simulating primary thyroid carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature
title_full Metastasis of distal esophageal carcinoma to the thyroid with presentation simulating primary thyroid carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Metastasis of distal esophageal carcinoma to the thyroid with presentation simulating primary thyroid carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Metastasis of distal esophageal carcinoma to the thyroid with presentation simulating primary thyroid carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature
title_short Metastasis of distal esophageal carcinoma to the thyroid with presentation simulating primary thyroid carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature
title_sort metastasis of distal esophageal carcinoma to the thyroid with presentation simulating primary thyroid carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4001107/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24755371
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-12-106
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