title: Thyroid metastasis of the primary lung adenocarcinoma: a case report.
abstract: Metastatic diseases of thyroid are rarely seen. For the patients who had previous malignancy in their history, metastatic lesions should not be ignored in the differential diagnosis of massive lesions in the thyroid gland, even the primary tumor was treated years ago. In this article, we present a case with lung adenocarcinoma which was metastatic to the thyroid gland.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chest Surgery, İstanbul Training and Research Hospital, Turkey. drturkandbs@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Türkan
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Dübüş
authors.forename: Baki
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Doğan
authors.forename: Soykan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Arıkan
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D011013:Pneumonectomy; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D013965:Thyroidectomy; D013997:Time Factors