Metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma of the thyroid gland, a case report

Mohamed T Hafez; Mohamed A Hegazy; Khaled Abd Elwahab; Mohammad Arafa; Islam Abdou; Basel Refky

doi:10.1186/1758-3284-4-27

Metastatic rhabdomyosarcoma of the thyroid gland, a case report

Mohamed T Hafez, Mohamed A Hegazy, Khaled Abd Elwahab, Mohammad Arafa, Islam Abdou, Basel Refky

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The thyroid gland is a known but an unusual site for metastatic tumors from various primary sites. Despite the fact that it is one of the largest vascular organs in the body, clinical and surgical cases have given an incidence of 3% of secondary malignances of the organ. Nevertheless, thyroid metastases are not an exceptional finding at autopsy, they are encountered in 2% to 24% of the patients with malignant neoplasm.Soft tissue sarcomas metastatic to the thyroid are extremely rare as the majority of thyroid metastasis are caused by tumors of the kidneys, lungs, mammary glands, ovaries , and colon or by melanomas.We report a case of 22-years-old woman with right leg rhabdomyosarcoma metastatic to the thyroid gland.

Original language	English
Article number	27
Pages (from-to)	27
Journal	Head and Neck Oncology
Volume	4
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1186/1758-3284-4-27
Publication status	Published - May 29 2012

Keywords

Adult
Female
Humans
Leg/pathology
Rhabdomyosarcoma/pathology
Thyroid Neoplasms/pathology
Young Adult

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