title: Thyroid metastasis from nasopharyngeal carcinoma: a case report.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Jalaludin
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rajadurai
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Va
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Prasad
mesh_terms: 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