| Literature DB >> 18085362 |
Yuichi Sakairi1, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Akira Iyoda, Makoto Suzuki, Takahiro Nakajima, Yasuo Sekine, Kiyoshi Shibuya, Yoko Takahashi, Yukio Nakatani, Takehiko Fujisawa.
Abstract
A solitary metastatic tumor from thyroid papillary carcinoma is rarely diagnosed preoperatively. A 61-year-old woman was referred to us for investigation of a solitary nodule in the right lung field on a chest X-ray, several years after a right hemithyroidectomy for thyroid carcinoma. Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial needle aspiration (EBUS-TBNA) of a tumor in the right lower lobe, adjacent to the inferior pulmonary vein, revealed metastasis of thyroid papillary carcinoma. Immunohistochemical examination of histological cores obtained from the EBUS-TBNA proved extremely helpful in confirming the diagnosis. We performed right lower lobectomy with lymph node sampling, and the final pathological diagnosis was papillary carcinoma without lymph node metastasis.Entities:
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Year: 2007 PMID: 18085362 DOI: 10.1007/s00595-007-3560-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Surg Today ISSN: 0941-1291 Impact factor: 2.549