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In patients with extensive metastatic foci, it is not rare that the metastatic carcinoma appears in the thyroid. The lesions are usually multifocal and variable in size and are not subject for aspiration cytology. When the metastatic thyroid carcinomas are solitary or forced to distinguish from primary thyroid tumors, aspiration cytology is indicative. They may be associated with symptoms of hyperthyroidism or subacute thyroiditis. Among surgical cases, the most common carcinoma metastasizing to the thyroid is renal cell carcinoma, followed by carcinomas of the lung, breast, esophagus, uterus, stomach, and skin. The average periods from diagnosis of the primary carcinoma to metastasis to the thyroid were relatively long, such as 106 months in the kidney, 131 months in the breast, and 132 months in the uterus. The metastatic carcinoma to the thyroid may be found as the initial presentation of an occult primary tumor. Herein, we show a case of metastatic renal cell carcinoma of the thyroid and discuss the differential diagnoses from follicular neoplasm.
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Suzuki, A., Hirokawa, M., Tanaka, A. (2019). Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma. In: Kakudo, K. (eds) Thyroid FNA Cytology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1897-9_51
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