Parotid metastasis as the first presentation of papillary thyroid carcinoma
نویسندگان
1 Nuclear Medicine Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
2 Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
3 Nuclear Medicine Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
4 Nuclear Medicine Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
5 Nuclear Medicine Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
6 Cancer Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
7 Nuclear Medicine Research Center, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
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چکیده
Parotid metastasis originated from papillary thyroid carcinoma is extremely rare, especially as the first presentation of the disease. We present a 70-year-old man with a history of painless swelling in the right side of the neck. He was evaluated for parotid tumor and histopathologic examination revealed a poorly differentiated carcinoma in the parotid gland with suspicion of thyroid origin. The thyroid was examined and a small nodule was palpable in the right lobe of the thyroid that was found to be dedifferentiated papillary thyroid carcinoma upon total thyroidectomy. He received 5.5GBq of 131I and post-ablation whole body iodine scan showed thyroid remnant, cervical lymph node metastasis, lung and pericardial metastases and pleural effusion. He succumbed to his disease 8 months after diagnosis despite further treatments efforts including chemoradiation.
