Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma

Female patient, 44 years of age, with a palpable mass in the right breast, supraclavicular lymph nodes and tumor in the left adrenal gland. She was admitted to hospital and evolved unfavorably. She was hypotensive, with abdominal pain despite painkillers. She also began with episodes of disorientati...

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Published in:	Acta médica del Centro : revista del Hospital Clínico Quirúrgico "Arnaldo Milián Castro" Vol. 6; no. 1; pp. 79 - 83
Main Authors:	Noel Ernesto Pedraza Alonso, Arletis Ferrer Pérez, Betty Falcón Alonso, Marta Pérez de Alejo Rodríguez, Pedro Omar Casuso Hernández, Leonel Valdés Leiva
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	Spanish
Published:	Editorial Ciencias Médicas 01-02-2012
Subjects:	insuficiencia cardiaca insuficiencia respiratoria metástasis de la neoplasia neoplasias de la tiroides/complicaciones
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Summary:	Female patient, 44 years of age, with a palpable mass in the right breast, supraclavicular lymph nodes and tumor in the left adrenal gland. She was admitted to hospital and evolved unfavorably. She was hypotensive, with abdominal pain despite painkillers. She also began with episodes of disorientation. At the eleventh day of admission she started sweating profusely and showed marked deterioration of the general condition. It was necessary to call the doctor on guard duty. When arriving to bed, the patient had a cardiac arrest and, despite resuscitation measures, the patient was declared deceased. With the necropsy, it was found, as the underlying cause of death, an anaplastic thyroid carcinoma with multiple metastases to organ and systems.
ISSN:	2709-7927