tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "Multiple giant scalp metastases of a follicular thyroid carcinoma"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Multiple giant scalp metastases of a follicular thyroid carcinoma | BioMed Central World Journal of Surgical Oncology Open Access Case report Multiple giant scalp metastases of a follicular thyroid carcinoma Kenko Cupisti 1 Uwe Ramp2 Andreas Raffel1 Markus Krausch1 Alexander Rehders1 and Wolfram T Knoefel1 Address Department of General Visceral and Pediatric Surgery University Hospital Heinrich-Heine-University of Dusseldorf Germany and institute of Pathology University Hospital Heinrich-Heine-University of Dusseldorf Germany Email Kenko Cupisti - cupisti@ Uwe Ramp - ramp@ Andreas Raffel - raffel@ Markus Krausch - krausch@ Alexander Rehders - rehders@ Wolfram T Knoefel - knoefel@ Corresponding author Published II August 2008 Received 7 April 2008 World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2008 6 82 doi 1477-7819-6-82 Accepted 11 August 2008 This article is available from http content 6 1 82 2008 Cupisti et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ 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