Papillary Thyroid Cancer of Thyroid Implants in Soft Tissue Neck after 15 years of Thyroid Surgery for Benign Pathology

Patients presenting with long standing huge multinodular goiters may present with multiple nodules in the lateral neck, sometime it is very difficult to differentiate thyroid nodules from cervical lymphadenopathy on clinical, radiological and histological evaluation. If patients present with recurrence after surgery for benign thyroid nodules, very rarely they may be associated with thyroid implants in the soft tissue of neck or detached thyroid nodules or cervical lymphadenopathy with complete replacement by thyroid tumor cells [1].