PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Meshikhes, Abdul-Wahed N.
AU  - Tingura, Mukund
AU  - Al-Saeed, Jamal Y.
TI  - Concurrent papillary and medullary thyroid carcinomas with mixed metastases to lymph nodes
DP  - 2004 Mar 01
TA  - Saudi Medical Journal
PG  - 373--375
VI  - 25
IP  - 3
4099  - http://smj.org.sa/content/25/3/373.short
4100  - http://smj.org.sa/content/25/3/373.full
SO  - Saudi Med J2004 Mar 01; 25
AB  - We report here a rare concurrence of medullary and papillary carcinomas of the thyroid in a 39-year-old Saudi male. He presented with a solitary nodule of the right thyroid lobe and underwent total thyroidectomy based on the cytological diagnosis of papillary carcinoma. Subsequent detailed histopathologic examination of the thyroid revealed 2 different types of malignancies in the 2 lobes papillary cancer in the right and medullary cancer in the left lobe. A single small lymph node showed metastatic replacement by both cancers. The extreme rarity and the interesting pathological features of such combinations are discussed.