Hepatic metastases from medullary thyroid carcinoma appearing twelve years after the eradication of primitive tumor: cytological and radiological aspects

Diagn Cytopathol. 1999 Jul;21(1):43-5. doi: 10.1002/(sici)1097-0339(199907)21:1<43::aid-dc12>3.0.co;2-z.

Abstract

We report on radiological and cytological findings from a case of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) metastatizing to the liver 12 yr after the eradication of the primary neoplasm. This behavior has never before been described in a sporadic form of MTC.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Carcinoma, Medullary / diagnostic imaging
  • Carcinoma, Medullary / pathology*
  • Carcinoma, Medullary / secondary
  • Carcinoma, Medullary / surgery
  • Humans
  • Liver Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Liver Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Thyroid Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Thyroid Neoplasms / surgery
  • Time Factors
  • Ultrasonography