Thymic carcinoma is a rare epithelial malignancy differentiated from thymoma by the presence of cytologically malignant cells. There are few reports of the treatment of locally advanced or metastatic thymic carcinoma. We describe a patient who sought treatment for thymic carcinoma metastatic to pleura, pericardium, retroperitoneum, and neck nodes. He was treated with neoadjuvant etoposide, ifos...

Cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) of the head and neck may metastasize in up to 5% of patients, with the parotid lymph nodes the most frequent site for spread. Metastases frequently show delayed presentation after the primary cancer had been treated. The optimum treatment should be surgery followed by adjuvant radiotherapy, with an appropriate parotidectomy, and preservation of the facial...

BACKGROUND Head and neck cancer without distant metastases is amenable to various modalities of treatment. However, the stage at presentation is a very important determinant for treatment success. The present study was conducted to determine the stage-wise presentation of non-metastatic head and neck cancer patients from the hilly regions in Kumaon division of Uttarakhand, India. MATERIALS AN...

The patient was treated with primary chemoradiation. Six months following the completion of treatment, he was found to have fullness of the right tonsillar fossa. A right tonsillectomy for biopsy purposes revealed squamous cell carcinoma. A composite resection of the right oropharynx with neck dissection and fibular free-flap reconstruction was performed. Metastatic lymph nodes were not found i...

510 cases of surgical lymph node biopsies during a five year periode are reviewed with the following conclusionsthe lymph node biopsy constitues 5% of all the surgical biopsies, the cervical and axillary lymph nodes are the most commonly biopsicd nodes due to their easy accessibility and due to the fact that they drain the lymph from many vital organs: the next most commonly biopsied nodes are ...

Cystic change in metastatic lymph nodes of papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is a diagnostic challenge for fine needle aspiration (FNA) because of the scant cellularity. The aim of this study was to evaluate the measurement of thyroglobulin in fine needle aspirate (Tg-FNA) for detecting metastatic PTC in patients with cystic neck lesions and to validate the optimal cutoff value of Tg-FNA. A tot...

A 19-year-old girl referred to our clinic complaining of a painless lump on the left side of her tongue.  The patient had no history of dysphagia, lingual paresthesia or bleeding. Physical examination revealed the presence of multiple enlarged lymph nodes on the left side of her neck.  Histopathology of lingual mass and lymph nodes showed pleomorphic adenoma.  To our knowledge, this is the firs...

Medullary thyroid carcinoma is a rare malignancy that arises from calcitonin-producing C-cells and frequently metastasizes to lymph nodes in the neck. Distant metastases may involve bone, lung, and liver. The infrequent number of cases limits the clinical nature and ability to optimize diagnostic tools. Here, we present a case of a micronodular radiographic pattern in metastatic medullary thyro...

e16002 Background: To evaluate patients with parotid squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) to see is it a primary or metastatic and determine the outcome of patients. METHODS Fifty-nine patients were identified with parotid SCC through the hospital database, patients' charts, imaging studies, and computerized notes of the University of Michigan. RESULTS Fifty patients diagnosed as metastatic SCC of...

Purpose:Head andneck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is one of the 10most common cancers with a 50% five-year survival rate, which has remained unchanged for the past three decades. One of the major reasons for the aggressiveness of this cancer is that HNSCCs readilymetastasize to cervical lymph nodes that are abundant in the head and neck region. Hence, discovering new molecules controlling th...