Pulmonary metastasis of a papillary thyroid carcinoma and primary lung adenocarcinoma: two coincident carcinomas at the same location

Diagnostic Pathology

Dongmei Lin⁴  Ning Lu⁴  Ning Wu¹  Jun Jiang¹  Shuangmei Zou⁴  Ying Liu³  Zhonghua Luan²  Liyan Xue⁴ 

[1] Department of Imaging Diagnosis, Cancer Institute (Hospital), Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China;Department of Pathology, Yuncheng Central Hospital, Yuncheng, Shanxi Province, China;Department of Nuclear Medicine, Cancer Institute (Hospital), Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China;Department of Pathology, Cancer Institute (Hospital), Peking Union Medical College, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China

关键词: Thyroglobulin;    Napsin-A;    Lung adenocarcinoma;    Papillary thyroid carcinoma;    Tumor-to-tumor metastasis;   

Others  :  807519
DOI  :  10.1186/1746-1596-8-26

 received in 2013-01-15, accepted in 2013-02-10,  发布年份 2013

【 摘 要 】

Tumor-to-tumor metastasis is a fairly rare phenomenon. The lung cancers are the most common donors, but are exceedingly rare as recipients. Here we report a case of a lung adenocarcinoma acting as the recipient of papillary thyroid carcinoma, with multiple spreading foci of the two cancers in the lung simultaneously. The morphology and immunohistochemisty (Napsin-A, Thyroglobulin) are very important in differential diagnosis of lung primary adenocarcinoma and metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma.

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