Dysphagia and dysphonia in a woman with a previous breast cancer

Clinical and Translational Oncology - Tập 8 - Trang 533-535 - 2006
María José Molina Garrido1, Carmen Guillén Ponce1, Sonia Maciá Escalante1, Carmen Martínez y Sevila1, Alfredo Carrato Mena1
1Department of Oncology, General Universitary Hospital from Elche, Elche, Alicante, Spain

Tóm tắt

Metastasis to the thyroid occur infrequently. The overall incidence in autopsy series vary from 0–5% in unselected cases to 24% in patients with a known malignancy. They usually occur when there are another metastases, sometimes many years after diagnosis of the original primary tumour. We present the case of a woman with dysphagia and dysphonia due to a thyroid mass as first manifestation of a metastatic breast cancer.

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