ArticleJournal of endocrinological investigation2020
Metastases to the thyroid gland: review of incidence, clinical presentation, diagnostic problems and surgery, our experience.
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- Adenocarcinoma admixed with neuroendocrine carcinoma of the cervix: A case report and review of literature.Case reports in women's health · 2024Article
- Isolated thyroid gland metastasis from bladder urothelial carcinoma: a rare description and literature analysis.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2023Article
- Metastatic Disease to a Concurrent Thyroid Neoplasm: A Case Series and Review of the Literature.Head and neck pathology · 2023Review
- Neuroendocrine neoplasm with metastasis to the thyroid: a case report and literature review.Frontiers in oncology · 2023Article
- Metastases to the Thyroid Gland: What Can We Do?Cancers · 2022Review
- Clinicopathological and Molecular Features of Secondary Cancer (Metastasis) to the Thyroid and Advances in Management.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022Review
- Metastases to the thyroid gland: ultrasonographic findings and diagnostic value of fine-needle aspiration cytology.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Article
- The various faces of hyperthyroidism.Journal of clinical & translational endocrinology · 2020Article
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Abstract
purposeMetastases to the thyroid gland are uncommon and they represent 1-3% of all thyroid malignancy. The aim of this study is to analyze the diagnostic problems and the role of surgery in metastatic lesions to the thyroid.
methodsWe retrospectively analyzed all patients who had undergone thyroidectomy at our Center. Out of more than 5000 thyroidectomies performed, only 9 cases had metastases to the thyroid gland.
resultsThe most common primary tumor arises from kidney and lung. Non-thyroid malignancies diagnosis was obtained with US, FNAC and PET-CT. Surgery was performed in all our series (except for one case) and the expectancy of life after surgery is related to the primary tumor and comorbidities of patients.
conclusionThe thyroid gland can be a rare site of metastases for many tumors, especially in an abnormal thyroid gland. Surgery is associated with an improved survival and the extension of surgery depends on the extension of the neoplastic lesion.
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