Subcutaneous implantation of oncocytic thyroid cell aggregates nine years later from thyroidectomy. A case report.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction and importance

Subcutaneous implantation of thyroid tissue is a rare clinical condition that involves the head and neck region and occurs after surgery, diagnostic procedures or cervical trauma.

Case presentation

A 90-year old woman with two skin nodules on her thyroidectomy scar was hospitalized and treated by two surgical excisions. Histologically, these lesions were two aggregates of cutaneous oncocytic thyroid cells. In the patient's clinical history there was a total thyroidectomy for multinodular goiter, performed 9 years previously and at which a well-encapsulated subcapsular oncocytic adenoma of the left lobe was also incidentally discovered. At 12 months of follow-up, the patient is showed well and her wounds healed.

Clinical discussion

Subcutane

SUBMITTER: Fama F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8924621 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature