Histiocytic sarcoma is a rare lymphohematopoietic malignancy with aggressive clinical course and poor therapy response. The diagnosis relies on the confirmation of its histiocytic lineage and exclusion of other poorly differentiated tumors. Most of the cases present in extranodal sites, but primary gastric involvement is exceptional.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRationale: Differentiated thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine malignancy with concomitant hematological malignancy in 7%.
Patient Concerns: We present a case of a synchronous papillary thyroid cancer and a follicular variant of non-Hodgkin lymphoma and discuss the possible diagnostic and treatment dilemmas.
Diagnosis: A 48-year-old female was reffered to our hospital with diagnosis "thyroid cancer".
Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) of the thorax including bronchial and thymic tumors belong to foregut NETs. Limited loco-regional thoracic NETs can be resected with surgery, but in extensive metastatic disease the treatment is mainly palliative. A high incidence and density of somatostatin receptors (SSTR2, SSTR3, and SSTR5) are found in thoracic NETs.
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