Metastases from Rectum and Thyroid Cancers in Same Cervical Lymph Node: A Case Report.
- Author:
Bulent YILDIZ
1
;
Abdulkadir REIS
;
Evren FIDAN
;
Feyyaz OZDEMIR
;
Halil KAVGACI
;
Fazil AYDIN
Author Information
1. Department of Medical Oncology, Karadeniz Technical University Faculty of Medicine, Trabzon, Turkey. drbulentyildiz@hotmail.com
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Lymph nodes;
Neoplasm metastasis;
Rectum;
Thyroid gland;
Neoplasms
- MeSH:
Biopsy;
Biopsy, Needle;
Carcinoma;
Disease Progression;
Female;
Humans;
Lymph Nodes;
Middle Aged;
Neoplasm Metastasis;
Rectal Neoplasms;
Rectum;
Thyroid Gland;
Thyroid Neoplasms
- From:Korean Journal of Pathology
2010;44(5):551-553
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
An excisional biopsy targeting a cervical lymph node was performed on a 49-year-old female patient with metastatic rectal cancer. The biopsy revealed rectal and papillary thyroid cancer metastasis in the same lymph node. A thin-needle thyroid aspiration biopsy was performed, and the result was papillary thyroid carcinoma. The patient, who received chemotherapy for the metastatic rectal cancer, died due to disease progression about 5 months after a secondary primary tumor was detected. Metastasis of multiple malignancies in the same lymph node is extremely rare. A metastases of rectal and thyroid cancers to the same lymph node has not been reported until now. Our patient is the first case in the literature.
