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Primary leiomyosarcoma of thyroid gland: the youngest case
Mouna Ayadi1, Azza Gabsi1, Khdija Meddeb1
1Service d'Oncologie Médicale, Institut Salah Azaiez Tunis, Faculté de Médecine de Tunis, Université el Manar, Tunisie.
The Pan African Medical Journal
|May 24, 2017
Abstract:
Primary leiomyosarcomas of the thyroid gland are extremely rare. We report a case of a 32 year-old women with a multinodular goiter. She underwent total thyroidectomy. The tumor histology showed spindle-shaped cells that expressed desmine, caldesmone and smooth muscle actine but were negative cytokeratins.
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