Case report
English
Mohd Shafi Moona, Arshad Hussain,Itrat Mehdi
Department of Medical Oncology, African Oncology Institute Sabratha, Libya
JMJ 2010, Vol.10, No.2:154-155
Abstract
A 45 year Libyan female was diagnosed to have invasive lobular carcinoma of the right breast. Following Surgery and adjuvant treatment she progressed with brain metastasis after 4 years. She developed right lobe thyroid swelling after 5 years. Right thyroid lobectomy was done and histopathology revealed a metastatic carcinoma from the breast. We present this rare unusual case of female breast cancer with brain metastasis, who subsequently developed metastasis to the thyroid gland. Metastasis to thyroid is rare and has rarely been reported. This is the first case reported from this institute.
Keywords: Breast cancer, Thyroid metastasis, Sabratha, Unusual metastasis, Rare metastasis
Link/DOI: http://www.jmj.org.ly/images/stories/summer2010/154.pdf