SECONDARY NEOPLASM OF THE THYROID PRESENTING AS A GOITRE.
Secondary neoplasm is a very rare finding in a goitre despite the numerous reports of metastatic deposits in the thyroid gland at necropsy. Eleven cases are reported of such deposits presenting clinically as a thyroid nodule, the sites of origin including a meningioma and an unusual carcinoma of the skin. Some of the factors, including pre-existent degenerative processes, believed to determine the incidence of secondary neoplasm in the thyroid, are discussed together with the problems of establishing the diagnosis.
D002277:Carcinoma; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005853:Geriatrics; D006042:Goiter; D006801:Humans; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary; D010336:Pathology; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms
DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; GERIATRICS; GOITER; NEOPLASM DIAGNOSIS; NEOPLASM METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; THYROID NEOPLASMS