Papillary carcinoma thyroid with metastasis to ectopic cervical thymus

World Journal of Surgical Oncology

Case Report

Rayees A Malik¹  Samina A Khanday²  Majid Mushtaque³  Sameer H Naqash³  Ajaz A Malik³  Parwez S Khan³ 

[1] Department of Pathology, Sheri Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, 190011, Soura, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India;Department of Radiology, Sheri Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, 190011, Soura, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India;Department of Surgery, Sheri Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, 190011, Soura, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir, India;

关键词: Thyroid Cancer;    Papillary Carcinoma Thyroid;    Total Thyroidectomy;    Papillary Carcinoma;    Cervical Lymphadenopathy;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1477-7819-9-22

 received in 2010-07-14, accepted in 2011-02-18,  发布年份 2011

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

Papillary carcinoma of thyroid is the most common type of thyroid neoplasm which is usually confined to the thyroid and tends to metastasize to regional lymph nodes. Distant metastasis occur in up to 15% of cases. Thymic metastasis from any malignant carcinoma is extremely rare with only four cases reported in medical literature. We report a case of papillary carcinoma of thyroid metastasizing to ectopic cervical thymus which has not been previously reported.

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