A rare case of three years disease free survival in a locally advanced parathyroid carcinoma successfully excised by complete surgical resection

Authors

Abdul Ahad Sohail, Aga Khan UniversityFollow
Bushra Ayub, Patel Hospital, Pakistan
Syed Akbar Abbas, Aga Khan UniversityFollow
Shafqat Ali Sheikh, Patel Hospital, Pakistan
Talha Ahmed Qureshi, Patel Hospital, Pakistan
Muhammad Usman Tariq, Aga Khan UniversityFollow
Asad Diwan, Aga Khan UniversityFollow

Document Type

Report

Department

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery

Abstract

Parathyroid carcinoma (PC) is one of the rarest malignancies making approximately 0.005% of all cancers. It may arise sporadically or less commonly, in conjunction with genetic endocrine syndromes. Due to the rarity of the disease, no general consensus or definitive guidelines exist for its pre-operative diagnosis, management, or follow up. Surgical tumor removal is the gold standard treatment to prevent its recurrence. Parathyroid carcinoma has a high recurrence rate ranging from 40 to 60% in recent literature. We report a case of a seventy-year-old elderly female with locally advanced parathyroid carcinoma successfully surgically excised completely with a 3 year disease free survival period without adjuvant chemotherapy or radiotherapy.

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Publication (Name of Journal)

Annals of Medicine and Surgery

Recommended Citation

Sohail, A. A., Ayub, B., Abbas, S. A., Sheikh, S. A., Qureshi, T. A., Tariq, M., Diwan, A. (2020). A rare case of three years disease free survival in a locally advanced parathyroid carcinoma successfully excised by complete surgical resection. Annals of Medicine and Surgery, 57, 62-65.
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