Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Presenting with Intraluminal Tracheal Mass Symptoms
- Author:
Irfan Mohamad
;
Ali Haron
- Publication Type:Case Reports
- Keywords:
Thyroid, adenocarcinoma, papillary, invasion, trachea, lumen
- From:
The Medical Journal of Malaysia
2013;68(2):164-165
- CountryMalaysia
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
Papillary thyroid carcinoma is a common thyroid
malignancy reported world wide. It affects females more
commonly in the 4th to 6th decades of life. The patients
usually present with a painless anterior neck mass and
occasionally with lymph node involvement. We report a case
of an elderly male who presented with hoarseness and
hemoptysis, which warranted bronchoscopy. Biopsy of the
intraluminal tracheal mass revealed the diagnosis of
papillary thyroid carcinoma. Computed tomography scan of
the neck confirmed the presence of the primary lesion in the right thyroid lobe with invasion into the adjacent trachea and esophagus.
