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Isolated thyroid metastasis revealed an unknown lung adenocarcinoma: a case report

Overview of attention for article published in Journal of Medical Case Reports, September 2015
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Title
Isolated thyroid metastasis revealed an unknown lung adenocarcinoma: a case report
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Journal of Medical Case Reports, September 2015
DOI 10.1186/s13256-015-0663-z
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J. Khalil, F. Elomrani, M. Benoulaid, H. Elkacemi, T. Kebdani, H. Errihani, N. Benjaafar

Abstract

Cancer metastasis to the thyroid is extremely rare. The most common sites that have been reported to metastasize to the thyroid gland are breast and kidney. As to primary lung cancer metastasizing to the thyroid gland, only a few cases have been described in the literature. We report a case of a 37-year-old white Arabian woman who had never smoked tobacco products for whom a malignant thyroid mass revealed a primary lung tumor. She had a surgical excision for both the thyroid and the pulmonary tumors, and received adjuvant chemotherapy. At 1 year, she is still in remission. Our case is rare as it describes a case where the thyroid lesion was the revealing sign of an unknown lung carcinoma. Management of thyroid metastases should depend on the individual situation and surgical excision should be proposed whenever a patient's condition is favorable.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 16 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 3 19%
Student > Bachelor 2 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 13%
Student > Master 2 13%
Other 1 6%
Other 2 13%
Unknown 4 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 7 44%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 6%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 6%
Unknown 7 44%
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