A 59-Year-Old Male with Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma

A 59-Year-Old Male with Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com A 59-year-old man presented with dyspnea, dysphagia, and dysphonia developing over the course of one week. He was initially treated for pneumonia at an outpatient clinic several days prior, and his symptoms worsened considerably overnight prior to presentation at our institution. In the emergency department (ED), he showed thyromegaly. Chest X-ray w...

Papillary Carcinoma Thyroid in a Nine-year-old Child: A Case Report

      Thyroid enlargement and nodules are very rare in children, but when they occur, the chance of malignancy among these nodules is very high. Thyroid carcinoma is rare in childhood, but in the last two decades, its incidence has increased two-fold. A painless nodule in the neck is the most common presentation of the disease. Dysphagia, hoarseness, cervical lymphadenopathy, weight loss, and f...

A rare case of thyroid carcinoma in a 14-year-old female patient

The incidence of thyroid and the prevalence of follicular carcinoma is rare in childhood and adolescents; however, it is considered as the second most common pediatric thyroid malignancy. Vascular invasion, distant metastasis, and tumor size greater than 4 cm are among the factors leading to total thyroidectomy followed by radioactive iodine therapy. The tumor size of the case in this study was...

Multiple myocardial bridge in a 59 year-old woman

Introduction: Myocardial bridging is a congenital condition in which a segment of a major epicardial coronary artery has an intra myocardial route. Myocardial bridging is usually confined to a single vessel and is typically the mid segment of the left anterior descending artery. Bridging may be associated with chest pain, myocardial infarction, and sudden cardiac death, or usually asymptomati...

Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma