Thyroid carcinoma metastasis to the sternum: resection and reconstruction.

Acta Chir Belg

Head and Neck Surgery Department, Jules Bordet Cancer Institute, Rue Héger-Bordet 1, B-1000 Bruxelles, Belgium.

Published: March 2002

Metastases of thyroid carcinoma to the sternum are not so frequent and ablative surgery enables the patients to live longer with a better quality of life. After such a resection, the surgical defect has to be covered either by autogenous or artificial substitutes. We present a 62 years old patient with an asymptomatic sternal metastasis of a poorly differentiated follicular thyroid carcinoma. After radical excision, including the sternum, both clavicular heads and an upper mediastinal dissection, the defect was reconstructed in two layers, combining a Marlex mesh and a pedicled pectoralis major muscle flap. Postoperative course was uneventful and respiratory function was not disturbed.

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