title: Metastatic papillary carcinoma of thyroid in a patient undergoing allogeneic BMT for CML.
abstract: A 30-year-old woman underwent HLA-compatible bone marrow transplant for chronic myeloid leukaemia. Her post-transplant course was complicated by disseminated aspergillus and CMV infections resulting in death 65 d post transplant. At post-mortem, multiple pulmonary metastases of papillary carcinoma of the thyroid were found with a small (< 8 mm) primary carcinoma in the thyroid. It is suggested that the progression of this tumour was related to the patient's immunocompromised state.
authors.affiliation: Department of Haematology, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh.
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Morrison
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: O'Grady
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Parker
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: McLaren
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007108:Immune Tolerance; D015464:Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / Q000628:therapy*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000473:pathology*; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*