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ArticleArchive of clinical cases2021

Collision tumor of the thyroid - a challenge during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Mihaela Vlad, Ana Corlan, Melania Balas, Ioana Golu, Daniela Amzar, Emil Bistrian, Marioara Cornianu

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Article in Archive of clinical cases, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mihaela VladDepartment of Internal Medicine II, Discipline of Endocrinology, "Victor Babeș" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Romania.
Ana CorlanDepartment of Internal Medicine II, Discipline of Endocrinology, "Victor Babeș" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Romania.
Melania BalasDepartment of Internal Medicine II, Discipline of Endocrinology, "Victor Babeș" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Romania.
Ioana GoluDepartment of Internal Medicine II, Discipline of Endocrinology, "Victor Babeș" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Romania.
Daniela AmzarDepartment of Internal Medicine II, Discipline of Endocrinology, "Victor Babeș" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Romania.
Emil Bistrian1 Clinic of Surgery, Emergency County Hospital Timisoara, Romania.
Marioara CornianuDepartment of Microscopic Morphology, Discipline of Morphopathology, "Victor Babeș" University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timisoara, Romania.
Victor Babeș University of Medicine and Pharmacy Timișoara · RO

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Some of the patients with anaplastic thyroid carcinomas have a coexistent differentiated thyroid cancer, sustaining the hypothesis that this cancer may develop from more differentiated tumors. We describe a case with a collision tumor of the thyroid, defined as a neoplastic lesion composed of two distinct cell populations, with distinct borders. The patient presented during the COVID-19 pandemic with dysphonia, dyspnea, multinodular goiter and a painless, rapidly enlarging, left cervical swelling. She had been first time diagnosed with left nodular goiter in 2007, with an indication for surgery, which she declined. After partial excision of the left latero-cervical adenopathy, the pathological analysis showed massive lymph node metastasis from anaplastic thyroid cancer. A total thyroidectomy was done; the postoperative pathological exam identified a papillary thyroid microcarcinoma in the right lobe and an anaplastic thyroid cancer in the left lobe. Postoperatively, levothyroxine treatment was started and the patient was referred to radiotherapy. This case highlights the importance of urgent management of some cases with compressive multinodular goiter, even during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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anaplastic thyroid cancercollision tumordedifferentiationpapillary thyroid microcarcinoma

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PMID34984229
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