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Dario Perez, MD; Louis Brown, MD

Arch Surg. 1984;119(3):323-326.

Abstract
• Follicular carcinoma of the thyroid has the propensity for microscopic angioinvasion. Tumor extension into the great veins has been previously reported primarily as a postmortem finding. Most patients have a long history of a substernal goiter and appear initially with superior vena cava syndrome. We studied a case of intraluminal invasion of the superior vena cava by a follicular carcinoma of the thyroid, without superior vena cava syndrome. To our knowledge, this is the second reported case of a patient treated successfully by surgery.

(Arch Surg 1984;119:323-326)

Author Affiliations
From the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and St Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Nov 4, 1983.

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