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Medullary (thyroid) carcinoma-like carcinoids of the larynx
A K el-Naggar1, J G Batsakis, R Vassilopoulou-Sellin
1Department of Pathology, University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.
The Journal of Laryngology and Otology
|August 1, 1991
Abstract:
The histopathological spectrum of neuroendocrine neoplasms of the larynx includes a subset that may be indistinguishable from a medullary carcinoma of the thyroid gland. For a patient who presents with a medullary carcinoma-like metastasis in a cervical lymph node and in whom there is no clinically demonstrable thyroid lesion, a laryngeal atypical carcinoid must be excluded. The literature's third example of a primary medullary carcinoma-like atypical carcinoid of the larynx is presented.