An Extraordinary Case of Mesenchymal Chondrosarcoma Metastasis in the Thyroid

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2015

Authors

Ortiz, S (Author) Other; Tortosa, F (Author) Other; Sobrinho Simoes, M (Author) FMUP

Journal

Title: Endocrine Pathology

Vol. 26

Pages: 33-36

ISSN: 1046-3976

Publisher: Springer Nature

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Authenticus ID: P-00A-BVP

DOI: 10.1007/s12022-014-9351-6

Abstract (EN): Secondary tumours of the thyroid gland account for 1.25 to 3 % in clinical series and reach 24 % in autopsy series. Chondrosarcoma is a rare malignant mesenchymal tumour of chondrogenic nature; the mesenchymal variant represents less than 3 % of all chondrosarcomas, being therefore extremely rare. A mesenchymal chondrosarcoma metastasis in the thyroid is exceptional; to our knowledge, only three previous cases of chondrosarcoma metastasis in the thyroid have been reported to date but none of such cases corresponded to a mesenchymal chondrosarcoma. We present the first of such a case in a 27-year-old woman with a 4-year history of mesenchymal chondrosarcoma of the sacrum that was treated by surgery and chemotherapy. At the present admission, head and neck computed tomography revealed a well-defined nodule in the thyroid gland. The diagnosis of metastasis from the mesenchymal chondrosarcoma was made in the right lobectomy specimen.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 4