Giant Posttraumatic Cervical Hematoma: Acute Presentation of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma in an Adolescent

OBJECTIVE: To describe a rare case of acute presentation of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION: A 19-year-old male presented with an expanding cervical mass following blunt trauma. A computed tomography scan revealed a mass suspected to be hematoma that was com...

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Autores principales: Marković, Miroslav, Paunović, Ivan, Dragaš, Marko, Božić, Vesna, Ilić, Nikola, Končar, Igor, Davidović, Lazar
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2016
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5588419/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27111810
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000445117
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Sumario:OBJECTIVE: To describe a rare case of acute presentation of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION: A 19-year-old male presented with an expanding cervical mass following blunt trauma. A computed tomography scan revealed a mass suspected to be hematoma that was compressing the vessels and thereby deviating the trachea. Immediate surgery was performed. Neither vascular injury nor active bleeding was seen; instead, a solid, hematoma-like tumefaction in the right thyroid lobe was revealed. A total thyroid lobectomy was performed. A histologic paraffin section confirmed a PTC that was permeated by hematoma. CONCLUSION: This was a unique case of an acute, life-threatening presentation of previously asymptomatic PTC in an adolescent.

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