The worldwide pandemic, coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a novel infection with serious clinical manifestations, including death. Our aim is to describe the first non-ICU Spanish deceased series with COVID-19, comparing specifically between unexpected and expected deaths. In this single-centre study, all deceased inpatients with laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 who had died from March 4 to April 16, 2020 were consecutively included.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRecently the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak has been declared a pandemic. Despite its aggressive extension and significant morbidity and mortality, risk factors are poorly characterized outside China. We designed a registry, HOPE COVID-19 (NCT04334291), assessing data of 1021 patients discharged (dead or alive) after COVID-19, from 23 hospitals in 4 countries, between 8 February and 1 April.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImmunophenotypical features from tumors can be variable and, sometimes, confusing. We herein report a 61 year old woman with two foci of papillary thyroid microcarcinoma who developed a bone lesion four months after total thyroidectomy/central lymphadenectomy (mpT1aN0), with an immunohistochemical pattern suggestive of a pulmonary rather than a thyroid origin (CK7, napsin-A and TTF1 positive; and negative thyroglobulin). Further biomarkers (HBME-1 and PAX8) were performed in order to confirm primary tumor, leading to conclusion of a bone metastasis from thyroid papillary carcinoma.
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