Abstract：
:A 49 year-old woman with anaplastic thyroid carcinoma came, for the first time, to our clinic with an enlarged supraclavicular lymph node. Ten years earlier she received a diagnosis of benign nodular goiter and has been followed up with ultrasonography, which never demonstrated any enlargement of her thyroid nodule and with fine needle aspiration biopsies (FNAB), that always proved normal. An ultrasonographic control, performed 10 months before diagnosis, showed the onset of a shell calcification all around the thyroid nodule that forbade the performance of FNAB. At initial examination in our endocrinology centre she was found to have an enlarged thyroid nodule (changing from 3.5 cm to 4.5 cm) and a supraclavicular lymph node 3 cm wide. The patient was therefore sent to the surgeon who performed a total thyroidectomy and a lymph node exenteration. The histological examination reported a thyroid anaplastic carcinoma, composed of osteoclast-like cells and large calcifications, which showed signs of local invasion and vessel infiltration; the supraclavicular lymph node proved to be a large metastasis of anaplastic thyroid cancer. Total body CT scan, bone scintigraphy and brain CT scan showed, respectively, lung, bone and brain metastasis. Postoperative chemotherapy was rapidly interrupted for acute toxicity. The patient died for lung, bone and brain metastasis, 2 months after initial examination.
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Minerva Endocrinoljournal_title
Minerva endocrinologicaauthors
Vescini F,Di Gaetano P,Vigna E,Pascoli A,Cacciari Mkeywords:
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2000-09-01 00:00:00pages
81-3issue
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0391-1977issn
1827-1634journal_volume
25pub_type
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.23736/S0391-1977.18.02930-9
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
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更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.23736/S0391-1977.20.03356-8
更新日期：2020-11-19 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.23736/S0391-1977.16.02477-9
更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.23736/S0391-1977.20.03192-2
更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.23736/S0391-1977.20.03221-6
更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.23736/S0391-1977.16.02295-1
更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.23736/S0391-1977.16.02583-9
更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.23736/S0391-1977.17.02666-9
更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：AIM:The aim of this paper was to compare serum high sensitivity C-reactive protein (HsCRP) levels and carotid artery intima-media thickness (CIMT) of patients with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) or impaired fasting glucose (IFG) with that in control subjects. METHODS:Ninety-six subjects with prediabetes, 48 with IFG...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.23736/S0391-1977.17.02701-8
更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:This study evaluates the effectiveness of continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) in diabetes patients who were on routine dialysis. METHODS:Literature search was conducted in electronic databases and studies were selected by following precise eligibility criteria. Random-effects meta-analyses were performed to...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.23736/S0391-1977.20.03284-8
更新日期：2020-12-03 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Obesity has become a national epidemic and a disease of global magnitude. The numbers of patients with obesity have grown exponentially in the last 10 years to the degree that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that one third of the US population is obese. The prevalence of diabetes has grown by mo...
journal_title：Minerva endocrinologica
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00
