A Case of Endoscopically Diagnosed Gastric Cancer with Metastasis to Thyroid and Breast.
- Author:
Sang Ho YOON
;
Sung Mok KIM
;
Suk Joon YOO
;
Wun Yong YU
;
Ji Hee HAN
;
Dae Kwan JEONG
;
Sean Jae KANG
;
Hi Yeon KIM
;
Chan Ju LEE
;
Dong Sun KIM
;
Hae Kyong LEE
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Signet - ring cell carcinoma;
Metastasis;
Metastasis;
Mechanical and soil hypotheses
- MeSH:
Autopsy;
Biopsy;
Biopsy, Fine-Needle;
Breast*;
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms;
Kidney;
Lung;
Mass Screening;
Melanoma;
Neoplasm Metastasis*;
Stomach Neoplasms*;
Thyroid Gland*;
Thyroid Neoplasms
- From:Korean Journal of Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
1993;13(4):701-705
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Metastatic malignant tumors involving the thyroid gland are not as unusual as was once believed. They may in fact be more common than primary cancer of the thyroid, especially if careful screening is performed at autopsy. The origins of primary neoplasms that metasta size to the thyoid are myriad, but reports obviously indicate predminantly cancers of the kidney, breast, and lung and malignant melanoma. Occasienally, metastatic lesions from several gastrointestinal neoplasms such as colo-retal and esophageal carcinoma are seen, but metastasis from gastric cancer is very rare. We have seen one case of thyroid cancer metastasized from the stomach cancer. It simultaneously spread to the breast also and confirmed with gastrofiberscopic biopsy, fine needle aspiration cytology of the thyroid and excisonal biopsy of the breast. We report this case with reriew of literature.
