Thyroid metastasis from nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a case report.
Anaplastic nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) metastatic to the thyroid gland is rare. We report the first such case in a 54-year-old Malaysian Chinese woman. The correct diagnosis should be made so that thyroidectomy may be avoided and an appropriate chemoradiotherapeutic regimen instituted.
Jalaludin
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Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Rajadurai
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Prasad
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D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D002681:China / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008296:Malaysia; D008875:Middle Aged; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed