Cardiac Metastasis of Thyroid Cancer
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Cardiac Metastasis of Thyroid Cancer
Anaplastic thyroid carcinomas (ATC) are very aggressive cancers. The median survival is 4 to 5 months and the long survival is rare. Fifteen to 50 percent of the patients with anaplastic carcinoma have extensive local invasion and distant metastases at initial presentation of the disease (1). In 90% of the cases, lungs and pleura are sites of distant metastasis. Other metastatic sites are bone,...
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عنوان ژورنال: Electronic Journal of General Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 2516-3507
DOI: 10.29333/ejgm/82639