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.
Biopsy ; Biopsy, Needle ; Carcinoma ; Disease Progression ; Female ; Humans ; Lymph Nodes ; Middle Aged ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Rectal Neoplasms ; Rectum ; Thyroid Gland ; Thyroid Neoplasms

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.
Biopsy ; Biopsy, Needle ; Carcinoma ; Disease Progression ; Female ; Humans ; Lymph Nodes ; Middle Aged ; Neoplasm Metastasis ; Rectal Neoplasms ; Rectum ; Thyroid Gland ; Thyroid Neoplasms