Anaplastic Transformation of Papillary Thyroid Cancer in the Retroperitoneum

Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma is an aggressive variant of thyroid cancer that in most cases arises from anaplastic transformation of terminally differentiated thyroid carcinomas. This process usually occurs in the thyroid or cervical lymph nodes. Anaplastic transformation in distant metastatic sites...

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Autores principales: Solomon, James P., Wen, Fang, Jih, Lily J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26351607
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/241308
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description Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma is an aggressive variant of thyroid cancer that in most cases arises from anaplastic transformation of terminally differentiated thyroid carcinomas. This process usually occurs in the thyroid or cervical lymph nodes. Anaplastic transformation in distant metastatic sites is exceedingly rare, only previously documented in a few case reports. We report a rare case of anaplastic transformation of papillary thyroid carcinoma within a large retroperitoneal metastasis in a 64-year-old male 30 years after the initial diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-45532022015-09-08 Anaplastic Transformation of Papillary Thyroid Cancer in the Retroperitoneum Solomon, James P. Wen, Fang Jih, Lily J. Case Rep Pathol Case Report Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma is an aggressive variant of thyroid cancer that in most cases arises from anaplastic transformation of terminally differentiated thyroid carcinomas. This process usually occurs in the thyroid or cervical lymph nodes. Anaplastic transformation in distant metastatic sites is exceedingly rare, only previously documented in a few case reports. We report a rare case of anaplastic transformation of papillary thyroid carcinoma within a large retroperitoneal metastasis in a 64-year-old male 30 years after the initial diagnosis. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-08-16 /pmc/articles/PMC4553202/ /pubmed/26351607 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/241308 Text en Copyright © 2015 James P. Solomon 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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Solomon, James P.
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Anaplastic Transformation of Papillary Thyroid Cancer in the Retroperitoneum
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title_full Anaplastic Transformation of Papillary Thyroid Cancer in the Retroperitoneum
title_fullStr Anaplastic Transformation of Papillary Thyroid Cancer in the Retroperitoneum
title_full_unstemmed Anaplastic Transformation of Papillary Thyroid Cancer in the Retroperitoneum
title_short Anaplastic Transformation of Papillary Thyroid Cancer in the Retroperitoneum
title_sort anaplastic transformation of papillary thyroid cancer in the retroperitoneum
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26351607
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/241308
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