title: [Thyroid's metastasis of tonsillar squamous cell carcinoma].
abstract: The authors describe the case of a 58 years old man, affected by squamous cell carcinoma of the tonsil, who underwent left tonsillectomy with bilateral neck dissection, followed by radiotherapy. After a 6 months period, the patient began to suffer from dysphonia, dysphagia and loss of weight: a painless neoformation was detected at the right lobe of the tyhroid, resulted a metastasis of the tonsillar neoplasm. The search for intranodular thyroglobulin was negative; the patient underwent thyroidectomy which showed a massive infiltration of the right cricothyroid space, cricoid and thyroid wing cartilage necrosis and intralaryngeal tumor infiltration. The authors describe the thyroid metastasis treatment, present an up-to-date review of the literature and suggest a thyroid careful clinical evaluation in every patient with a previous history of oropharyngeal cancer.
authors.affiliation: U.O. di Medicina Interna, Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Arcispedale Sant'Anna, Ferrara. g.scanelli@ospfe.it
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Scanelli
authors.forename: Claudia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Aimoni
authors.forename: Elisabetta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Marchetti
authors.forename: Matteo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Geminiani
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Pastore
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary* / Q000628:therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary* / Q000628:therapy; D014067:Tonsillar Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome