The Journal of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health · 2007 · 12 citations · 6 references
MedicineOncologyPathologyMetastasisNeoplasiaTumor PathologyCervical Lymph Node MetastasisLymph Node MetastasisMetastatic Cervical Lymph Node DiseaseNeck PathologyThyroid CancerThyroid CytologyCarotid SheathFollicular Thyroid NeoplasiaFollicular Thyroid Neoplasm PathologyFollicular Thyroid NeoplasmsMetastatic Thyroid Tissue DetectionRetrospective Case StudyThyroid Cancer PathologyThyroid Carcinoma Metastasis To Lymph Nodes
Traditionally 'lateral aberrant thyroid' tissue present in cervical lymph nodes in the face of a clinically normal thyroid gland is held to be a metastasis from an occult primary thyroid carcinoma. A patient in whom follicular thyroid tissue was found in a lymph node lateral to the carotid sheath in the presence of a thyroid gland which was histologically free of cancer is herewith presented.
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