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1: World J Surg Oncol. 2008 Aug 11;6:82.Click here to read Click here to read Links

Multiple giant scalp metastases of a follicular thyroid carcinoma.

Cupisti K, Ramp U, Raffel A, Krausch M, Rehders A, Knoefel WT.

Department of General, Visceral and Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital, Heinrich-Heine-University of Düsseldorf, Germany. cupisti@uni-duesseldorf.de

BACKGROUND: The occurrence of skin metastases are rare events in the course of a follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) and usually indicate advanced tumor stages. The scalp is the most affected area of these metastases. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of a 76 year old Woman with multiple giant scalp metastases of a follicular carcinoma. These metastases had been resected and wounds had been closed with mesh graft. The 14-months follow up is presented. CONCLUSION: We demonstrate another case with multicentric form. Because of its location and size a primary wound closure was not possible. A healing could be reached using vacuum therapy and mesh graft transplantation.

PMID: 18694518 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

PMCID: PMC2533320

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