A rapidly enlarging painful neck mass in a 59-year-old woman

Priti V Nath; Mohamed Shakir; Thanh D Hoang; April E Bergeron; Babette C Glistercarlson

doi:10.1002/ccr3.2637

A rapidly enlarging painful neck mass in a 59-year-old woman

Clin Case Rep. 2020 Jan 24;8(3):570-571. doi: 10.1002/ccr3.2637. eCollection 2020 Mar.

Authors

Priti V Nath¹, Mohamed Shakir¹, Thanh D Hoang¹, April E Bergeron², Babette C Glistercarlson¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Endocrinology Department of Medicine Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Bethesda MD USA.
² Department of Pathology Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Bethesda MD USA.

Abstract

Primary care physicians and endocrinologists should be aware that neck masses with concerning features like, in this case, a delay in evaluation and treatment may dramatically shorten a patient's life.

Keywords: anaplastic; cancer; fine‐needle aspiration; thyroid; undifferentiated.

Published 2020. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.