If you don't remember your password, you can reset it by entering your email address and clicking the Reset Password button. You will then receive an email that contains a secure link for resetting your password
If the address matches a valid account an email will be sent to __email__ with instructions for resetting your password
Departments of Pathology, Surgery, and Pediatric Endocrinology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Departments of Pathology, Surgery, and Pediatric Endocrinology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Departments of Pathology, Surgery, and Pediatric Endocrinology, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
A very young child in the first few years of life presented with an asymptomatic right neck mass. Neck ultrasound showed heterogeneous enlargement of the right thyroid lobe, and fine-needle aspiration biopsy diagnosed the mass as benign; the patient was biochemically euthyroid. She underwent right hemithyroidectomy, and the pathology was reported as multinodular goiter with lymphocytic thyroiditis (Figure A-C). Two years later, she was found to have significant left-eye visual loss with photophobia. Ophthalmologic evaluation revealed a choroidal amelanotic mass touching the optic disc, with extensive retinal detachment. Favoring a choroid hemangioma, this was managed with plaque radiation; however, she developed symptomatic neovascular glaucoma, requiring left-eye enucleation. Pathology was interpreted as benign ectopic thyroid tissue (Figure D,E). On re-establishing care 4 years later, she was found to be biochemically euthyroid on a lower-than-expected dose of levothyroxine. A 123I whole-body scan on thyrogen and low-iodine diet demonstrated uptake in the left thyroid and multiple osseous metastases (Figure G-K). Review of both previous pathology specimens revealed a minimally invasive follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) in the right thyroid and metastatic FTC in the left eye. The patient underwent completion left thyroid lobectomy to facilitate 131I ablation therapy; there was a 0.25-cm focus of minimally invasive FTC and chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis (Figure F). Next-generation sequencing performed on both thyroidectomy specimens revealed a CHEK2 germline pathogenic mutation c.1100delC(p.T367Mfs∗15) but failed to identify any additional mutation. Although CHEK2 mutations are best known in adult breast cancer, they have a much broader significance,
Figure(A) The right thyroid is distorted by a follicular neoplasm, surrounded by compressed thyroid, with chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis. (B) At the periphery of this neoplasm, tumor cells infiltrate in solid nests. (C) Infiltrating tumor cells have nuclear atypia with elongation, overlap, and irregular contours. (D) Ocular enucleation specimen. The choroid contains a small focus of thyroid carcinoma (black arrow). (E) The metastatic carcinoma has mild cytologic atypia. (F) Completion thyroidectomy: chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis and a single 0.25-cm minimally invasive follicular carcinoma. (G) Magnetic resonance image (MRI) sagittal view: mass lesion at T4 level (white arrow) with cord expansion and intraspinal edema from T1 to T9. (H) MRI transverse view: Mass lesion at T4 level. (I, J, K) Spect-computed tomography, showing areas of thyroid carcinoma metastasis at right acetabular roof (I), spine T4 (J), and spine S1 (K).