Open AccessCervical Ectopic Thymic Tissue with Parathyroid Elements Mimicking Papillary Carcinoma Metastasis
Author(s) -
Esra Karakuş
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the annals of clinical and analytical medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2667-663X
DOI - 10.4328/jcam.3327
Subject(s) - medicine , metastasis , parathyroid carcinoma , pathology , thymic carcinoma , papillary carcinoma , carcinoma , cancer , thymoma , thyroid carcinoma , thyroid
A 16 year-old female patient was presented with a cervical mass and pain. An ultrasound imaging detected hypoechoic nodules and calcifications at the right and left thyroid lobe. Fine needle aspiration biopsy performed on the left lesion revealed cellular, three-dimensional and papillary groups. Both the macroscopic and the hematoxylin and eosin–stained sections of the right and left thyroid lobe showed a papillary thyroid microcarcinoma