Esophageal recurrence of medullary thyroid carcinoma.

• DOI: 10.3978/j.issn.2227-684x.2015.03.04
• Publication Date: 2015-12-01
• Authors: José Luis Muñoz d...; Agnieszka Dworzyńska; Leyre Lorente-Poch; J. Sancho; Antonio Sitges‐Serra
• Keywords: Cervical lymph nodes

Medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) metastasizes to the regional lymph nodes and lungs, liver bones. Only one case of recurrence MTC involving upper gastrointestinal tract has been reported so far. We describe a 38-year-old woman with MTC, who developed an esophageal submucosal after two previous local recurrences treated surgically ethanol injection. After resection right lateral wall, calcitonin dropped by 60% showed doubling time >1 year. cannot rule out role deep injection in involvement cervical esophagus wall.