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Table 1 Clinical data of patients with metastatic involvement of the thyroid

From: Metastasis of distal esophageal carcinoma to the thyroid with presentation simulating primary thyroid carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature

Source

Age (yr)

Sex

Site of primary lesion

Type of secondary thyroid surgery

Pathology results from thyroid specimen

Outcomes (months)*

Present case

61

M

Esophagus

Palliative bilateral NT + tracheostomy

SCC

11

Shuangshoti S et al. 1982 [9]

58

M

Esophagus

TT + ipsilateral CL

SCC

5

Yamada T et al. 1999 [10]

74

F

Esophagus

ST + Bilateral CL

SCC

/

Basu S et al. 2005 [11]

55

F

Esophagus

NA

SCC

NA

Cumbo-Nacheli G et al. 2007 [12]

32

M

Esophagus

NA

Poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma

NA

Yoshida A et al. 1989 [7]

71

M

Stomach

ST

Poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma

7

Ok E et al. 2000 [13]

60

F

Stomach

Bilateral ST

Undifferentiated carcinoma (with signet-ring cells)

1.5

Lee HC et al. 2010 [15]

71

M

Stomach

Bilateral NT

Poorly differentiated carcinoma

4

Ihn MH et al. 2009 [14]

63

F

Stomach

NA

Undifferentiated carcinoma (with signet-ring cells)

6

Poiana C et al. 2011 [16]

70

F

Stomach

NA

Poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma (with small cells)

NA

  1. *Follow up since diagnosis of intrathyroid metastases; NA, no data available; NT, near-total thyroidectomy; ST, subtotal thyroidectomy; TT, total thyroidectomy; CL, cervical lymphadenectomy.