TY - JOUR
T1 - Simultaneous metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma and carcinoid of the small intestine in the cervical lymph node group
AU - Markou, Konstantinos D.
AU - Goudakos, John K.
AU - Triaridis, Stefanos
AU - Televantou, Despoina
AU - Hytiroglou, Prodromos
AU - Nikolaou, Angelos
PY - 2010/9/1
Y1 - 2010/9/1
N2 - Background: Malignancies, primary or metastatic, and infections are the main causative factors that should be included in the differential diagnosis of cervical adenopathy. Summary: We present a 56-year-old woman who was admitted to our department because of a supraclavicular mass. A neck dissection was performed and two different masses were excised. The histopathological examination showed that the larger mass (measuring 5cm) was a block of lymph nodes with metastatic papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. In the adjacent fibroadipose tissue, two lymph nodes with metastatic carcinoid tumor were found. The smaller mass (measuring 2cm) was a lymph node with metastatic carcinoid tumor. The patient underwent total thyroidectomy with ipsilateral radical neck dissection. Histopatological examination of the thyroid gland showed a lesion of papillary carcinoma, measuring 0.6cm. No further lesions of carcinoid were found. Conclusions: To our knowledge, this is the first report of a coexistence of metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma and intestinal carcinoid tumor in cervical lymph nodes.
AB - Background: Malignancies, primary or metastatic, and infections are the main causative factors that should be included in the differential diagnosis of cervical adenopathy. Summary: We present a 56-year-old woman who was admitted to our department because of a supraclavicular mass. A neck dissection was performed and two different masses were excised. The histopathological examination showed that the larger mass (measuring 5cm) was a block of lymph nodes with metastatic papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. In the adjacent fibroadipose tissue, two lymph nodes with metastatic carcinoid tumor were found. The smaller mass (measuring 2cm) was a lymph node with metastatic carcinoid tumor. The patient underwent total thyroidectomy with ipsilateral radical neck dissection. Histopatological examination of the thyroid gland showed a lesion of papillary carcinoma, measuring 0.6cm. No further lesions of carcinoid were found. Conclusions: To our knowledge, this is the first report of a coexistence of metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma and intestinal carcinoid tumor in cervical lymph nodes.
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U2 - 10.1089/thy.2009.0438
DO - 10.1089/thy.2009.0438
M3 - Article
C2 - 20718681
AN - SCOPUS:77956540344
SN - 1050-7256
VL - 20
SP - 1025
EP - 1028
JO - Thyroid
JF - Thyroid
IS - 9
ER -