Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma Metastasis to the Thyroid: A Narrative Review of the Literature
Menelaos G. Samaras, Abraham Pouliakis, Konstantinos Skaretzos, Ioannis Boutas, Adamantia Kontogeorgi, Dionysios T. Dimas, Argyro-Ioanna Ieronimaki, Magda Zanelli, Andrea Palicelli, Maurizio Zizzo, Giuseppe Broggi, Rosario Caltabiano, Serena Salzano, Nektarios I. Koufopoulos · 2025
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Description
Samaras and co-authors reviewed the literature on a curious cancer journey, published in 2025: kidney cancer that turns up years later in the thyroid gland. The clear cell type is the most common form of kidney cancer and often runs a long, slow course. During that course it can seed distant sites, the thyroid among them. A lump in the neck may be the first sign of return. The team searched three medical databases for case reports and series since 2011.
They kept only reports with treatment details and follow-up. The collection shows how such patients are found, operated on, and tracked. Because the spread is rare, no trials exist; these cases are the evidence. Surgeons meeting a thyroid mass in a kidney cancer survivor need exactly this map. The review assembles it from a scattered literature.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Menelaos G. Samaras, Abraham Pouliakis, Konstantinos Skaretzos, Ioannis Boutas, Adamantia Kontogeorgi, Dionysios T. Dimas, Argyro-Ioanna Ieronimaki, Magda Zanelli, Andrea Palicelli, Maurizio Zizzo, Giuseppe Broggi, Rosario Caltabiano, Serena Salzano, Nektarios I. Koufopoulos |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |