Nederlandse Vereniging voor Heelkunde en Koninklijk Belgisch Genootschap voor Heelkunde

Vergadering gehouden op 7 en 8 oktober 1988 te Amsterdam

G.Andry, G.Chantrain en P.Dor (Brussel), Unusual clinical presentation of 4 cases of differentiated thyroid carcinomas

Aim

Illustrate that thyroid cancer can be overlooked in some particular clinical presentations.

Material

Four distinct clinical presentations are presented: (1) a large neck mass mimicking an hemangioma revealed metastases in lymph nodes of the jugular chain with an occult primary tumour, (2) a submandibular cyst, slowly enlarging, disclosed a papillary carcinoma of the thyroid, (3) an abcess located below the angle of the mandible was surgically drained four times before the lymph node metastasis…