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From skin to thyroid: incidental finding of dual-variant papillary thyroid carcinoma in a patient with squamous cell carcinoma
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Published: 17 October 2025
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The occurrence of multiple primary neoplasms in a single patient is rare but well documented, and the incidental discovery of a previously undiagnosed thyroid carcinoma during lymph node dissection for another primary malignancy presents a unique diagnostic challenge. [...]
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Silvetti P, Di Maria D, Stanganelli I. From skin to thyroid: incidental finding of dual-variant papillary thyroid carcinoma in a patient with squamous cell carcinoma. Dermatol Reports [Internet]. 2025 Oct. 17 [cited 2026 Apr. 18];. Available from: https://journals.pagepress.net/dr/article/view/10587
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