Follicular thyroid carcinoma with tumour thrombus extending into superior vena cava and right atrium – A case report

Intra-cardiac extension of tumour thrombus of follicular carcinoma of thyroid is uncommon. We report a case of advanced thyroid carcinoma where tumour thrombus was well profiled with CT scan and transesophageal echo images and extension was noted from SVC into right atrium, with clinical features of...

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Autores principales: Manik, Geetesh, Jose, John, Hygriv Rao, B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5067792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27751268
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2016.05.016
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description Intra-cardiac extension of tumour thrombus of follicular carcinoma of thyroid is uncommon. We report a case of advanced thyroid carcinoma where tumour thrombus was well profiled with CT scan and transesophageal echo images and extension was noted from SVC into right atrium, with clinical features of superior vena cava syndrome. The clinical significance of the “ring sign” is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-50677922017-09-01 Follicular thyroid carcinoma with tumour thrombus extending into superior vena cava and right atrium – A case report Manik, Geetesh Jose, John Hygriv Rao, B. Indian Heart J Case Report Intra-cardiac extension of tumour thrombus of follicular carcinoma of thyroid is uncommon. We report a case of advanced thyroid carcinoma where tumour thrombus was well profiled with CT scan and transesophageal echo images and extension was noted from SVC into right atrium, with clinical features of superior vena cava syndrome. The clinical significance of the “ring sign” is discussed. Elsevier 2016-09 2016-06-11 /pmc/articles/PMC5067792/ /pubmed/27751268 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2016.05.016 Text en © 2016 Cardiological Society of India. Published by Elsevier B.V. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Follicular thyroid carcinoma with tumour thrombus extending into superior vena cava and right atrium – A case report
title Follicular thyroid carcinoma with tumour thrombus extending into superior vena cava and right atrium – A case report
title_full Follicular thyroid carcinoma with tumour thrombus extending into superior vena cava and right atrium – A case report
title_fullStr Follicular thyroid carcinoma with tumour thrombus extending into superior vena cava and right atrium – A case report
title_full_unstemmed Follicular thyroid carcinoma with tumour thrombus extending into superior vena cava and right atrium – A case report
title_short Follicular thyroid carcinoma with tumour thrombus extending into superior vena cava and right atrium – A case report
title_sort follicular thyroid carcinoma with tumour thrombus extending into superior vena cava and right atrium – a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5067792/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27751268
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ihj.2016.05.016
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