Saijo Hiroshi, Kitamura Yasuo, Takenaka Haruka, Kudo Sayaka, Yokoo Keiki, Hirohashi Yoshihiko, Takahashi Hiroki
Department of Respiratory Medicine, Kushiro City General Hospital, Japan.
Department of Pathology, Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine, Japan.
Intern Med. 2017;56(15):2033-2037. doi: 10.2169/internalmedicine.56.8340. Epub 2017 Aug 1.
Chest wall tumors are relatively rare, and hematogenous metastasis to the chest wall is very rare. We herein describe a rare case of occult thyroid carcinoma as metastasis to the chest wall in an 80-year-old woman. The patient received detailed examinations of the chest wall tumor, and the results suggested that she had occult thyroid carcinoma. Surgery was then performed to remove all of her thyroid. As a result, she was diagnosed with follicular carcinoma of the thyroid. We report an extremely rare case of occult thyroid carcinoma diagnosed as hematogenous metastasis to the chest wall.
胸壁肿瘤相对少见,血行转移至胸壁的情况极为罕见。我们在此描述一例罕见的隐匿性甲状腺癌转移至胸壁的病例,患者为一名80岁女性。患者接受了胸壁肿瘤的详细检查,结果提示她患有隐匿性甲状腺癌。随后进行手术切除了她的全部甲状腺。结果,她被诊断为甲状腺滤泡癌。我们报告了一例极为罕见的隐匿性甲状腺癌被诊断为血行转移至胸壁的病例。