Metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma of the thyroid gland, a case report

The thyroid gland is a known but an unusual site for metastatic tumors from various primary sites. Despite the fact that it is one of the largest vascular organs in the body, clinical and surgical cases have given an incidence of 3% of secondary malignances of the organ. Nevertheless, thyroid metast...

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Published in:Head & neck oncology 2012-05, Vol.4 (1), p.27-27, Article 27
Main Authors: Hafez, Mohamed T, Hegazy, Mohamed A, Abd Elwahab, Khaled, Arafa, Mohammad, Abdou, Islam, Refky, Basel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Case Report
Chemotherapy
Female
Humans
Leg - pathology
Oncology
Pathology
Patients
Rhabdomyosarcoma - pathology
Rhabdomyosarcoma - secondary
Rhabdomyosarcoma - surgery
Thyroid cancer
Thyroid Neoplasms - pathology
Thyroid Neoplasms - secondary
Thyroid Neoplasms - surgery
Tumors
Young Adult
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Summary:The thyroid gland is a known but an unusual site for metastatic tumors from various primary sites. Despite the fact that it is one of the largest vascular organs in the body, clinical and surgical cases have given an incidence of 3% of secondary malignances of the organ. Nevertheless, thyroid metastases are not an exceptional finding at autopsy, they are encountered in 2% to 24% of the patients with malignant neoplasm.Soft tissue sarcomas metastatic to the thyroid are extremely rare as the majority of thyroid metastasis are caused by tumors of the kidneys, lungs, mammary glands, ovaries , and colon or by melanomas.We report a case of 22-years-old woman with right leg rhabdomyosarcoma metastatic to the thyroid gland.
ISSN:1758-3284
1758-3284
DOI:10.1186/1758-3284-4-27