Hiroki Matsushita1, Gaku Omura2, Sumiyo Saburi3

  • 1Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kyoto, 602-8566, Japan; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Kyoto First Red Cross Hospital, 605-0981, Japan; Department of Otolaryngology, JCHO Kobe Central Hospital, Kobe, 651-1145, Japan.

Auris, nasus, larynx
|December 20, 2025
PubMed
まとめ

内頸静脈(IJV)を介して頭蓋底に浸潤した甲状腺癌の稀な症例が、脳神経障害を引き起こした。この異常な病像は、腫瘍の浸潤パターンの攻撃性を示唆している。

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