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

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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.

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  1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba, 260-8670, Japan

    Yuichi Sakairi, Kazuhiro Yasufuku, Akira Iyoda, Makoto Suzuki, Takahiro Nakajima, Yasuo Sekine, Kiyoshi Shibuya & Takehiko Fujisawa

  2. Department of Diagnostic Pathology, Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University, 1-8-1 Inohana, Chuo-ku, Chiba, 260-8670, Japan

    Yoko Takahashi & Yukio Nakatani

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Sakairi, Y., Yasufuku, K., Iyoda, A. et al. A Solitary Metastatic Lung Tumor from Thyroid Papillary Carcinoma Diagnosed by Endobronchial Ultrasound-Guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration (EBUS-TBNA): Report of a Case. Surg Today 38, 46–48 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00595-007-3560-2

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