Korean J Gastrointest Endosc.  1993 Dec;13(4):701-705.

A Case of Endoscopically Diagnosed Gastric Cancer with Metastasis to Thyroid and Breast

• Yoon SH
• Kim SM
• Yoo SJ
• Yu WY
• Han JH
• Jeong DK
• Kang SJ
• Kim HY
• Lee CJ
• Kim DS
• Lee HK

Abstract

Metastatic malignant tumors involving the thyroid gland are not as unusual as was once believed. They may in fact be more common than primary cancer of the thyroid, especially if careful screening is performed at autopsy. The origins of primary neoplasms that metasta size to the thyoid are myriad, but reports obviously indicate predminantly cancers of the kidney, breast, and lung and malignant melanoma. Occasienally, metastatic lesions from several gastrointestinal neoplasms such as colo-retal and esophageal carcinoma are seen, but metastasis from gastric cancer is very rare. We have seen one case of thyroid cancer metastasized from the stomach cancer. It simultaneously spread to the breast also and confirmed with gastrofiberscopic biopsy, fine needle aspiration cytology of the thyroid and excisonal biopsy of the breast. We report this case with reriew of literature.

Keyword

Signet - ring cell carcinoma; Metastasis; Metastasis; Mechanical and soil hypotheses

MeSH Terms

Autopsy
Biopsy
Biopsy, Fine-Needle
Breast*
Gastrointestinal Neoplasms
Kidney
Lung
Mass Screening
Melanoma
Neoplasm Metastasis*
Stomach Neoplasms*
Thyroid Gland*
Thyroid Neoplasms