Insular carcinoma of thyroid presenting as cervical cord compression. Review uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Insular carcinoma of thyroid is a very rare subtype of thyroid carcinoma which is characterized by its advanced stage at presentation and aggressive clinical course. We describe a case of insular carcinoma of the thyroid presenting in an unusual fashion with cervical cord compression at initial presentation. Cord compression is shown to be due to spinal metastases from vascular spread of the tumour and this typifies the high metastatic potential of this tumour subtype.

publication date

  • October 1, 2000

Research

keywords

  • Adenocarcinoma, Follicular
  • Spinal Cord Compression
  • Spinal Neoplasms
  • Thyroid Neoplasms

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0033745210

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1258/0022215001904013

PubMed ID

  • 11127160

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 114

issue

  • 10