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Neuroendocrine Tumor in a Routine Cervix Cytology
Tavares, Vanessa; Trancas, C; Santos, SNeuroendocrine tumors of the cervix are extremely rare, so their diagnosis is difficult and sometimes confused with some other neoplastic entities. We present a case of a 43-year-old woman with complaints of uterine bleeding and fibroids, proposed for an elective hysterectomy, diagnosed in routine preoperative cytology, as Adenocarcinoma with no other specification. After a colpocytology with biopsy, a cervix n...
Osteolytic Lesion in the skullcap – Revealing Metastasis of a Thyroid Carcinoma
Tavares, Vanessa; Trancas, C; Campo, M; Santos, SMetastasis of thyroid carcinoma comprise a low percentage of the total observed in the skullcap. We present a case of a 72-year-old female patient with an osteolytic lesion on the right frontal skullcap, subjected to a fine needle aspiration, whose diagnosis suggested thyroid tissue. On the thyroid ultrasound, a detected nodule was punctured, as well as the osteolytic lesion, whose cellular characteristics were...