Solitary thyroid metastasis from colon cancer: a rare case report

Malignant metastases to the thyroid are rare and are even rarer from a colorectal primary. As these metastases are often asymptomatic, they are usually discovered incidentally on imaging performed as follow-up for the primary tumour. In this report, we present a case of metastatic sigmoid adenocarci...

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Autores principales: Nicosia, L, Alessi, S, Proh, M, Grosso, E, Ansarin, M, Vingiani, A, Pisa, E, De Fiori, E
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cancer Intelligence 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5215259/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28101139
http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2016.696
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author Nicosia, L
Alessi, S
Proh, M
Grosso, E
Ansarin, M
Vingiani, A
Pisa, E
De Fiori, E
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description Malignant metastases to the thyroid are rare and are even rarer from a colorectal primary. As these metastases are often asymptomatic, they are usually discovered incidentally on imaging performed as follow-up for the primary tumour. In this report, we present a case of metastatic sigmoid adenocarcinoma to the thyroid diagnosed and treated at our institution.
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spelling pubmed-52152592017-01-18 Solitary thyroid metastasis from colon cancer: a rare case report Nicosia, L Alessi, S Proh, M Grosso, E Ansarin, M Vingiani, A Pisa, E De Fiori, E Ecancermedicalscience Case Report Malignant metastases to the thyroid are rare and are even rarer from a colorectal primary. As these metastases are often asymptomatic, they are usually discovered incidentally on imaging performed as follow-up for the primary tumour. In this report, we present a case of metastatic sigmoid adenocarcinoma to the thyroid diagnosed and treated at our institution. Cancer Intelligence 2016-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5215259/ /pubmed/28101139 http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2016.696 Text en © the authors; licensee ecancermedicalscience. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Nicosia, L
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Pisa, E
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Solitary thyroid metastasis from colon cancer: a rare case report
title Solitary thyroid metastasis from colon cancer: a rare case report
title_full Solitary thyroid metastasis from colon cancer: a rare case report
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title_short Solitary thyroid metastasis from colon cancer: a rare case report
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3332/ecancer.2016.696
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