radioiodine (1-131) is the treatment of choice in differentiated thyroid carcinoma. external radiotlierapy however, has it's own roie in these tumors. treatment of anaplastic thyroid carcinoma 1ms not acliieved any notahle success yet, though combined - modality regimens of radiotherapy and chemotherapy have sometimes shown significant results. in this paper the role of radiotlierapy and chemot...

introduction struma ovarii is an ovarian teratoma, represented in more than 50% by thyroid tissue. five percent of struma ovarii cases have been proven to be malignant and, as in the thyroid gland, papillary thyroid carcinoma is the most common histotype arising in struma ovarii. because of the unusual occurrence of this tumor, its management and follow-up after pelvic surgery is still controve...

thyroid cancer, the most common endocrine malignancy worldwide, originates from follicular epithelial cells. it is classified as a well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma (wdtc), which includes both follicular (ftc) and papillary types (ptc), poorly differentiated thyroid carcinomas (pdtc), anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (atc), and/or arising from para-follicular calcitonin producing cells involve m...

papillary microcarcinoma of thyroid (pmc) as a variant of papillary carcinoma less than 1 cm in size is a new clinicopathological entity, with high incidence and good prognosis. there are many differences between pmc and clinically apparent papillary thyroid carcinoma. also, there are some pmc case reports with unusual metastasis and aggressive courses. prognostic factors are age, size and morp...

  Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma is an uncommon, highly aggressive malignancy usually presenting in the elderly. An eighteen year old boy was recently diagnosed as anaplastic carcinoma of the thyroid.  PET/CECT scan performed for staging, revealed a large FDG avid heterogeneously enhancing thyroid mass with bilateral jugular venous thrombosis, which also showed increase...

Follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) is the second most common type of thyroid cancer after papillary carcinoma. It usually grows slowly and is clinically indolent; but rarely, its aggressive forms with distant metastases can occur. We report here an uncommon case of bilateral orbital metastasis of FTC. A 70-year-old woman present...

The primary treatment of thyroid carcinoma is surgery and the outcome depends on its extent. The post-operative management alternatives in thyroid carcinoma include thyroid hormone, radio-iodine ablation (I-131 Na), external beam radiation therapy (EBRT) and occasionally adjuvant chemotherapy. This retrospective study analyzes the managements of 153 patients (102, 51), age range 10-96 yea...

hbme-l is an antimesothelial monoclonal antibody that recognizes an unknown antigen on microvilli of mesothelial cells. the antibody is only relatively specific for mesothelium and is used in the differential diagnosis of mesothelioma and adenocarcinoma within the context of an appropriate immuno-histochemical panel. hbme-l has also been reported to strongly and uniformly stain papillary and fo...