Table 2: Thyroid carcinoma incidentally found during surgery for head and neck SCC.

 

Year

No. of cases

Head and Neck SCC

Number of thyroidectomies

Carcinoma/number of thyroidectomies

Histology of thyroid carcinoma

Clark, et al. [11]

1966

16

Oral cavity 6; larynx 8; pharynx 2

13

11/13

Papillary 2

Mixed 9

Butler, et al. [10]

1967

10

Oral cavity 4; larynx 5; pharynx 1

6

4/6

Mixed 4

Pacheco-Ojeda, et al. [6]

1991

10

Oral cavity 2; larynx 4; pharynx 4

9

nd/9

nd

Vassilopoulou-Sellin, et al. [9]

1992

8

Oral cavity 4

4

2/4

Follicular 2

Pitman, et al. [2]

1996

7

Oral cavity 2; larynx 4; pharynx 1

7

nd/7

Papillary 7

Lopez-Escamez, et al. [13]

1999

1

Larynx 1

1

0/1

0

Fliegelman, et al. [18]

2001

4

Oral cavity 4

4

2/4

Papillary 2

Coskun, et al. [1]

2001

3

Larynx 3

2

1/2

Papillary 1

Resta, et al. [16]

2003

8

Oral cavity 1; larynx 7

4

1/4

Papillary 1

Ansari-Lari, et al. [17]

2003

10

Head and neck

6

5/6

Papillary 5

Léon, et al. [3]

2005

5

Larynx 3; pharynx 2

3

1/3

Papillary 1

Yamamoto, et al. [5]

2006

3

Oral cavity 3

3

0/3

0

Guzzo, et al. [4]

2006

8

Head and neck

8

7/8

nd

Favero, et al. [12]

2007

2

Pharynx 2

2

2/2

Papillary 2

Dokuzlar, et al. [19]

2009

3

Larynx 3

3

1/3

Papillary 1

Vamanshankar, et al. [20]

2016

2

Oral cavity 1; pharynx 1

2

1/2

Papillary 1

Present report

2019

2

Larynx 2

2

2/2

Papillary 2

Total

102

Oral cavity 27;

Larynx 39;

Pharynx 13

79

40/79

Papillary 25

Follicular 2

Mixed 13

nd 16

nd: not described