Primary leiomyosarcoma of thyroid gland: the youngest case

Primary leiomyosarcomas of the thyroid gland are extremely rare. We report a case of a 32 year-old women with a multinodular goiter. She underwent total thyroidectomy. The tumor histology showed spindle-shaped cells that expressed desmine, caldesmone and smooth muscle actine but were negative cytoke...

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Autores principales: Ayadi, Mouna, Gabsi, Azza, Meddeb, Khdija, Mokrani, Amina, Yahiaoui, Yosra, Letaief, Feryel, Chraiet, Nesrine, Rais, Henda, Mezlini, Amel
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Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5429415/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28533836
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2017.26.113.11472
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author Ayadi, Mouna
Gabsi, Azza
Meddeb, Khdija
Mokrani, Amina
Yahiaoui, Yosra
Letaief, Feryel
Chraiet, Nesrine
Rais, Henda
Mezlini, Amel
author_facet Ayadi, Mouna
Gabsi, Azza
Meddeb, Khdija
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Yahiaoui, Yosra
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description Primary leiomyosarcomas of the thyroid gland are extremely rare. We report a case of a 32 year-old women with a multinodular goiter. She underwent total thyroidectomy. The tumor histology showed spindle-shaped cells that expressed desmine, caldesmone and smooth muscle actine but were negative cytokeratins.
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spelling pubmed-54294152017-05-22 Primary leiomyosarcoma of thyroid gland: the youngest case Ayadi, Mouna Gabsi, Azza Meddeb, Khdija Mokrani, Amina Yahiaoui, Yosra Letaief, Feryel Chraiet, Nesrine Rais, Henda Mezlini, Amel Pan Afr Med J Case Report Primary leiomyosarcomas of the thyroid gland are extremely rare. We report a case of a 32 year-old women with a multinodular goiter. She underwent total thyroidectomy. The tumor histology showed spindle-shaped cells that expressed desmine, caldesmone and smooth muscle actine but were negative cytokeratins. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2017-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC5429415/ /pubmed/28533836 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2017.26.113.11472 Text en © Mouna Ayadi et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of 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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Chraiet, Nesrine
Rais, Henda
Mezlini, Amel
Primary leiomyosarcoma of thyroid gland: the youngest case
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