Ovarian metastasis from thyroid carcinoma: a case report and literature review

BACKGROUND: Papillary thyroid carcinoma is rarely associated with metastatic disease. The most common sites of metastasis are the lungs and bones, while only few cases of ovarian metastasis are described in literature. CASE: We report the case of a 51 years old woman, treated 9 years before for papi...

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Autores principales: Corrado, Giacomo, Pomati, Giulia, Russo, Andrea, Visca, Paolo, Vincenzoni, Cristina, Patrizi, Lodovico, Vizza, Enrico
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4220057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25358556
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13000-014-0193-9
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author Corrado, Giacomo
Pomati, Giulia
Russo, Andrea
Visca, Paolo
Vincenzoni, Cristina
Patrizi, Lodovico
Vizza, Enrico
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Pomati, Giulia
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description BACKGROUND: Papillary thyroid carcinoma is rarely associated with metastatic disease. The most common sites of metastasis are the lungs and bones, while only few cases of ovarian metastasis are described in literature. CASE: We report the case of a 51 years old woman, treated 9 years before for papillary thyroid carcinoma, presenting to our Institute with a pelvic ovarian mass revealed by ultrasound imaging. After bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, the histologic examination detected a left ovarian metastasis from papillary thyroid carcinoma. CONCLUSION: Even if the diagnosis of ovarian metastasis from thyroid carcinoma is often controversial, it should be considered when a woman with an ovarian lesion of unknown origin, has a personal history of malignant thyroid disease. VIRTUAL SLIDES: The virtual slide(s) for this article can be found here: http://www.diagnosticpathology.diagnomx.eu/vs/13000_2014_193
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spelling pubmed-42200572014-11-06 Ovarian metastasis from thyroid carcinoma: a case report and literature review Corrado, Giacomo Pomati, Giulia Russo, Andrea Visca, Paolo Vincenzoni, Cristina Patrizi, Lodovico Vizza, Enrico Diagn Pathol Case Report BACKGROUND: Papillary thyroid carcinoma is rarely associated with metastatic disease. The most common sites of metastasis are the lungs and bones, while only few cases of ovarian metastasis are described in literature. CASE: We report the case of a 51 years old woman, treated 9 years before for papillary thyroid carcinoma, presenting to our Institute with a pelvic ovarian mass revealed by ultrasound imaging. After bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy, the histologic examination detected a left ovarian metastasis from papillary thyroid carcinoma. CONCLUSION: Even if the diagnosis of ovarian metastasis from thyroid carcinoma is often controversial, it should be considered when a woman with an ovarian lesion of unknown origin, has a personal history of malignant thyroid disease. VIRTUAL SLIDES: The virtual slide(s) for this article can be found here: http://www.diagnosticpathology.diagnomx.eu/vs/13000_2014_193 BioMed Central 2014-10-30 /pmc/articles/PMC4220057/ /pubmed/25358556 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13000-014-0193-9 Text en © Corrado et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Corrado, Giacomo
Pomati, Giulia
Russo, Andrea
Visca, Paolo
Vincenzoni, Cristina
Patrizi, Lodovico
Vizza, Enrico
Ovarian metastasis from thyroid carcinoma: a case report and literature review
title Ovarian metastasis from thyroid carcinoma: a case report and literature review
title_full Ovarian metastasis from thyroid carcinoma: a case report and literature review
title_fullStr Ovarian metastasis from thyroid carcinoma: a case report and literature review
title_full_unstemmed Ovarian metastasis from thyroid carcinoma: a case report and literature review
title_short Ovarian metastasis from thyroid carcinoma: a case report and literature review
title_sort ovarian metastasis from thyroid carcinoma: a case report and literature review
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4220057/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25358556
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13000-014-0193-9
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