Diagnosis and treatment of primary ectopic thyroid carcinoma: report of 3 cases and literature review / 临床耳鼻咽喉头颈外科杂志
Journal of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
;
(24): 151-153, 2014.
Article
in Chinese
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| ID: wpr-748519
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE@#Discuss the clinical features of primary ectopic thyroid carcinoma.@*METHOD@#The clinical data of three cases diagnosed of primary ectopic thyroid carcinoma in our department since 1990 were analyzed ret respectively and related literature was reviewed.@*RESULT@#All three patients were young females that had cervical lumps before surgery. The pathology results confirmed the diagnosis of ectopic thyroid papillary carcinoma. All cases had followed up till now and no relapse signs occurred.@*CONCLUSION@#Ectopic thyroid tissue is resulting from developmental defects at early stages of thyroid gland embryogenesis. They can cancerization, the treatment of ectopic thyroid carcinoma is also controversial. Here,we report 3 cases of primary ectopic thyroid papillary carcinoma, all of which were removed by surgery, take thyroxin orally after surgery and have a great prognosis.
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Main subject:
Therapeutics
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Thyroid Neoplasms
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Carcinoma
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Carcinoma, Papillary
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Diagnosis
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Thyroid Cancer, Papillary
Type of study:
Diagnostic study
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Prognostic study
Limits:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
Language:
Chinese
Journal:
Journal of Clinical Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
Year:
2014
Type:
Article
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