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Metastatic disease of bronchial carcinoma in a thyroid nodule: a case report

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Metastatic spread of solid tumors to the thyroid is a rare finding in patients with thyroid nodules. The most frequent sites of the primary tumor include the kidney, breast and lung. Work up of patients with a cold thyroid nodule and a history of cancer should therefore rule out other metastasizing cancer or recurrence of the previous tumor using fine-needle aspiration of the thyroid mass. We report the case of a 64-year-old male with metastatic spread of a bronchial carcinoma to the thyroid and the management of this case.

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  1. Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, University Hospital School of Medicine, Langenbeckstrasse 1, 55131, Mainz, Germany

    Simon F. Preuss & Mark Stenzel

  2. Institute of Pathology, University Hospital School of Medicine, Mainz, Germany

    Torsten Hansen

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Preuss, S.F., Stenzel, M. & Hansen, T. Metastatic disease of bronchial carcinoma in a thyroid nodule: a case report. Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol 262, 804–806 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00405-004-0906-x

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