Distant solitary skeletal muscle metastasis from papillary thyroid carcinoma.
An unusual case of isolated trapezoid muscle metastasis from a papillary carcinoma of the thyroid gland is described. Although extrathyroidal extension to the soft tissues of the neck may occur, distant metastases are rare in papillary thyroid carcinoma. Skeletal muscle metastasis from a differentiated thyroid carcinoma seems to be extremely rare, even for the follicular type of this cancer, well known for its hematogenous spread to various sites.
First Propaideutic Surgical Department, Athens Medical School, Hippocration University Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Dimitris
D
Panoussopoulos
George
G
Theodoropoulos
Konstantinos
K
Vlahos
Andreas Ch
ACh
Lazaris
Konstantina
K
Papadimitriou
D000368:Aged; D001415:Back; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019042:Muscle Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013965:Thyroidectomy