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ArticleClinical Medicine Insights. Oncology2018

A Rare Primary Tumor of the Thyroid Gland: A New Case of Leiomyoma and Literature Review.

Yanling Zhang, Heng Tang, Huaiyuan Hu, Xiang Yong

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Article in Clinical Medicine Insights. Oncology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Thyroid Leiomyoma: Case Report.Indian journal of otolaryngology and head and neck surgery : official publication of the Association of Otolaryngologists of India · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Yanling ZhangDepartment of Oncology, Wanbei Coal-Electricity Group General Hospital, Suzhou, China.
Heng TangDepartment of Pathology, Wanbei Coal-Electricity Group General Hospital, Suzhou, China.
Huaiyuan HuDepartment of Pathology, Wanbei Coal-Electricity Group General Hospital, Suzhou, China.
Xiang YongDepartment of Pathology, Wanbei Coal-Electricity Group General Hospital, Suzhou, China.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0787-9797

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Primary leiomyomas of the thyroid are very rare. We here report a case of a 53-year-old woman with a painless mass at the right thyroid, revealed by physical examination. The patient underwent a lobectomy. Frozen sections showed a spindle cell tumor of the thyroid gland. The nuclei of some of the tumor cells were obviously enlarged and deeply stained. Pseudocapsule invasion was observed in small foci. Samples showed neither mitosis nor necrosis and the nature of the tumor was difficult to determine. Paraffin sections showed a well-circumscribed nodular composed of intersecting fascicles of spindled to slightly epithelioid cells with eosinophilic cytoplasm and blunt-ended, cigar-shaped nuclei. We observed no significant nuclear atypia, mitotsis, or necrosis. Immunohistochemical staining showed the tumor cells to be positive for α-smooth muscle actin and h-caldesmon but negative for TG, TTF1, PAX8, S-100, CT, CK, and CD34. The ki-67 index was very low (<1%). Primary thyroid leiomyoma is rare and difficult to diagnose using frozen sections. Diagnosis requires immunohistochemical staining. Leiomyoma may be mistaken for other thyroid tumors also characterized by spindle cells.

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leiomyomasmooth muscle tumorsthyroid neoplasma

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