Didactic surgical experience of thyroid metastasis from renal cell carcinoma: A case report
| Autor: | Mikio Monji, Kumiko Suzuki, Moriyasu Yamauchi, Rintaro Shimazu, Yuichiro Kuratomi, Keita Kai, Natsuko Shibamiya, Hiroaki Kakinoki, Shohei Tobu |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
endocrine system endocrine system diseases business.industry Thyroid metastasis medicine.medical_treatment 030232 urology & nephrology Thyroidectomy Hemorrhage General Medicine medicine.disease urologic and male genital diseases female genital diseases and pregnancy complications Renal cell carcinoma 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Case report Medicine Radiology business |
| Zdroj: | World Journal of Clinical Cases |
| ISSN: | 2307-8960 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND The optimal therapeutic strategy in treating thyroid metastasis from renal cell carcinoma (RCC) has not been clearly established. Here we describe a case of didactic surgical experience of the disease which caused massive intraoperative bleeding. CASE SUMMARY A 59-year-old male patient presented with a thyroid left lobe soft mass detected by chest computed tomography scans prior to the surgical treatment of RCC of the left kidney. The thyroid mass was initially considered to be benign, then he underwent left radical nephrectomy. One year after the nephrectomy, stereotactic radiosurgery was performed for brain metastasis. During follow-up, the thyroid nodule gradually grew, and the patient manifested swallowing discomfort. Under a clinical diagnosis of thyroid follicular neoplasm, left hemithyroidectomy was performed. Although hemithyroidectomy is usually a safe and straightforward procedure, massive bleeding from markedly developed tumor vessels made the operation very difficult. The thyroid tumor was finally diagnosed as metastasis from clear cell RCC. CONCLUSION For proper timing of the surgery, a clinician should take into consideration the possibility of thyroid metastasis of RCC when a thyroid lesion is found in patients with RCC or in patients with a previous history of RCC. We recommend that thyroid metastasis of RCC should be resected as early as possible even if a patient has other metastatic sites. |
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