Metastases from Rectum and Thyroid Cancers in Same Cervical Lymph Node: A Case Report
Korean Journal of Pathology
;
: 551-553, 2010.
Article
in English
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-138445
ABSTRACT
An excisional biopsy targeting a cervical lymph node was performed on a 49-year-old female patient with metastatic rectal cancer. The biopsy revealed rectal and papillary thyroid cancer metastasis in the same lymph node. A thin-needle thyroid aspiration biopsy was performed, and the result was papillary thyroid carcinoma. The patient, who received chemotherapy for the metastatic rectal cancer, died due to disease progression about 5 months after a secondary primary tumor was detected. Metastasis of multiple malignancies in the same lymph node is extremely rare. A metastases of rectal and thyroid cancers to the same lymph node has not been reported until now. Our patient is the first case in the literature.
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Main subject:
Rectal Neoplasms
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Rectum
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Thyroid Gland
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Biopsy
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Biopsy, Needle
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Thyroid Neoplasms
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Carcinoma
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Disease Progression
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Lymph Nodes
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Neoplasm Metastasis
Limits:
Female
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Humans
Language:
English
Journal:
Korean Journal of Pathology
Year:
2010
Type:
Article
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