Korean J Pathol.  2010 Oct;44(5):551-553.

Metastases from Rectum and Thyroid Cancers in Same Cervical Lymph Node: A Case Report

• Yildiz B
• Reis A
• Fidan E
• Ozdemir F
• Kavgaci H
• Aydin F

Abstract

An excisional biopsy targeting a cervical lymph node was performed on a 49-year-old female patient with metastatic rectal cancer. The biopsy revealed rectal and papillary thyroid cancer metastasis in the same lymph node. A thin-needle thyroid aspiration biopsy was performed, and the result was papillary thyroid carcinoma. The patient, who received chemotherapy for the metastatic rectal cancer, died due to disease progression about 5 months after a secondary primary tumor was detected. Metastasis of multiple malignancies in the same lymph node is extremely rare. A metastases of rectal and thyroid cancers to the same lymph node has not been reported until now. Our patient is the first case in the literature.

Keyword

Lymph nodes; Neoplasm metastasis; Rectum; Thyroid gland; Neoplasms

MeSH Terms

Biopsy
Biopsy, Needle
Carcinoma
Disease Progression
Female
Humans
Lymph Nodes
Middle Aged
Neoplasm Metastasis
Rectal Neoplasms
Rectum
Thyroid Gland
Thyroid Neoplasms
Carcinoma
Thyroid Neoplasms