Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma Following Low-dose Irradiation
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- 1 August 1978
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Clinical Pathology
- Vol. 70 (2) , 303-307
- https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcp/70.2.303
Abstract
Komorowski, Richard, Hanson, Gerald, and Garancis, John C.: Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma following low-dose irradiation. Am J Clin Pathol 70: 303–307, 1978. Low-dose irradiation of the neck in childhood is associated with a markedly increased incidence of thyroid cancer. Such carcinomas have almost all been well differentiated, papillary or follicular types. This paper describes the development of metastatic anaplastic thyroid carcinoma in cervical lymph nodes a year after sub-total thyroidectomy for well-differentiated papillary carcinoma in a 32-year-old man who had had low-dose cervical irradiation at the age of 7 years. It appears that irradiation-related thyroid carcinomas, in at least a very small number of people, may be associated with aggressive carcinoma.Keywords
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- Thyroid Cancer Occurring as a Late Consequence of Head-and-Neck IrradiationNew England Journal of Medicine, 1976