TY - JOUR
T1 - Concomitant malignancies in the neck
T2 - Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma; A rare tumour presenting as a right-sided neck nodal mass and papillary carcinoma thyroid
AU - Umakanth, Suhas
AU - Lakshminarayana, Badareesh
AU - Kudva, Ranjini
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PY - 2021/11/17
Y1 - 2021/11/17
N2 - Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma is a rare low-grade sarcoma of mesenchymal origin. It involves the lymph nodes more commonly and rarely extranodal sites. The most common lymph node is cervical and usually presents as a painless asymptomatic mass. More often, it is a misdiagnosis, and there is a delay in treatment. It is rarely associated with Castleman disease, myasthenia gravis. Diagnosis of this condition is by histopathology and immunochemistry. Surgery is the primary modality of treatment, and adjuvant therapy has been tried with no definite trials due to the rarity of the disease. Here, we report a case of concomitant follicular dendritic sarcoma of the right cervical lymph node and papillary carcinoma of the thyroid managed in our institute. There was a line of investigations approaching towards a diagnosis, and she underwent total thyroidectomy and right modified radical neck dissection.
AB - Follicular dendritic cell sarcoma is a rare low-grade sarcoma of mesenchymal origin. It involves the lymph nodes more commonly and rarely extranodal sites. The most common lymph node is cervical and usually presents as a painless asymptomatic mass. More often, it is a misdiagnosis, and there is a delay in treatment. It is rarely associated with Castleman disease, myasthenia gravis. Diagnosis of this condition is by histopathology and immunochemistry. Surgery is the primary modality of treatment, and adjuvant therapy has been tried with no definite trials due to the rarity of the disease. Here, we report a case of concomitant follicular dendritic sarcoma of the right cervical lymph node and papillary carcinoma of the thyroid managed in our institute. There was a line of investigations approaching towards a diagnosis, and she underwent total thyroidectomy and right modified radical neck dissection.
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U2 - 10.1136/bcr-2021-244175
DO - 10.1136/bcr-2021-244175
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85120373745
VL - 14
JO - BMJ Case Reports
JF - BMJ Case Reports
SN - 1757-790X
IS - 11
M1 - e244175
ER -