[A report of a resected case of malignant lymphoma combined with follicular carcinoma of the thyroid].
A 66-year-old female administered with complaining of cervical mass. All of the thyroid function tested were within normal limits. A diagnosis of Malignant lymphoma was done by fine aspiration cytology. Total thyroidectomy and dissection of bilateral regional lymph nodes were performed. And additional chemotherapy is continued. The histological findings revealed diffuse lymphoma, mixed type (LSG), but there is no invasion of the lymphoma cell to the lymph node. There are also two follicular carcinomas with metastasis to the dissected regional lymph nodes. In the residual thyroid tissue, the findings of chronic thyroiditis was shown histopathologically.
Akamatsu
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E
Dept. of Surgery, Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital.
Goseki
N
N
Sakai
T
T
Maeda
Y
Y
Kawaguchi
K
K
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013965:Thyroidectomy; D013966:Thyroiditis / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology