Isolated Desmoid Tumor of the Thyroid Gland - Case Report

• Authors: Piotr Furga , Janusz Łapiński , Andrzej Kwiatkowski , Krzysztof Paśnik
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper presents a case of a 59-year old female patient with a desmoids tumor in a very rare location - in the thyroid gland. Due to marked local disease advancement and impossible radical surgical resection, the patient underwent chemotherapy. The treatment resulted in reduction of the tumor size while patient's condition was assessed as good, stable. Medical history and expanded diagnostic workup ruled out the possibility that this thyroid lesion was a part of familial adenomatous polyposis of the colon and Gardner's syndrome. It is highly probable that this desmoids tumor found in our patient was an isolated lesion, limited to the thyroid gland.

Keywords

EN

desmoid tumor; thyroid gland

• Publisher: Index Copernicus International
• Journal: Polish Journal of Surgery
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 82
• Issue: 9
• Pages: 523-525

Dates

published

1 - 9 - 2010

online

22 - 10 - 2010

Contributors

author

Piotr Furga

• Department of General, Oncological and Thoracic Surgery, Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw

author

Janusz Łapiński

• Department of General, Oncological and Thoracic Surgery, Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw

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Andrzej Kwiatkowski

• Department of General, Oncological and Thoracic Surgery, Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw

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Krzysztof Paśnik

• Department of General, Oncological and Thoracic Surgery, Military Institute of Medicine in Warsaw

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10035-010-0077-y