Surgical treatment of a solitary pulmonary metastasis from thyroidcancer resected 12 years earlier.

Nodular Metastatic Lung Tumor from Thyroid Carcinoma

“…Nodular metastatic lesions of about 10 mm in diameter to the lung from thyroid cancer are quite rare; to our knowledge, 16 patients have been reported in the English literature. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] In addition, autopsy studies reported two cases with occult pulmonary metastasis (>10 mm in diameter) from thyroid cancer. 18,19) The 16 cases, who were antemortem diagnosed, were female in all cases, and the thyroid cancer was papillary carcinoma in all but one case-a case of follicular carcinoma.…”

“…Pulmonary metastases from thyroid cancer usually present with a micronodular or miliary pattern throughout both lungs; nodular pulmonary metastases measuring 10 mm in diameter are very rare. [2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17] We herein present a case of nodular pulmonary metastasis from thyroid carcinoma.…”

A Solitary Metastatic Lung Tumor from Thyroid Papillary Carcinoma Diagnosed by Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration (EBUS-TBNA): Report of a Case

“…[2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] The clinical characteristics of these ten cases are summarized in Table 1. The primary cancer in all but one patient was papillary carcinoma, and fi ve patients were found to have a solitary lung tumor without known thyroid carcinoma.…”