World Journal of Surgical Oncology (Feb 2011)

Papillary carcinoma thyroid with metastasis to ectopic cervical thymus

  • Khanday Samina A,
  • Malik Rayees A,
  • Malik Ajaz A,
  • Naqash Sameer H,
  • Mushtaque Majid,
  • Khan Parwez S

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-9-22
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
p. 22

Abstract

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Abstract Papillary carcinoma of thyroid is the most common type of thyroid neoplasm which is usually confined to the thyroid and tends to metastasize to regional lymph nodes. Distant metastasis occur in up to 15% of cases. Thymic metastasis from any malignant carcinoma is extremely rare with only four cases reported in medical literature. We report a case of papillary carcinoma of thyroid metastasizing to ectopic cervical thymus which has not been previously reported.