Table 3.
Literature Review (1979–2006) of Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma to the Pleura
| Authors | Year | # of Patients | Age | Sex | Histologic Type | Positive Cytology Cases | Presenting Symptoms | Other Sites of Distant Metastasis | Papillary Clusters | Follicular Clusters | Intranuclear Inclusions | Intranuclear Grooves | Psammoma Bodies | Cytoplasmic Vacuoles | TGB | TTF-1 |
| Hyman (4) | 1979 | 1 | 76 | F | Papillary | 1 | Pleural effusion | Lung | + | − | − | − | − | − | N/A | N/A |
| Mizukami (5) | 1990 | 7 | − | − | Papillary and follicular | − | − | − | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Vernon (6) | 1992 | 1 | 50 | F | Papillary | 1 | No | Lung, iliac crest, cervical LN | − | − | − | − | + | − | N/A | N/A |
| Koppl (7) | 1993 | 1 | 88 | F | Anaplastic | − | Pleural effusion | − | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Kovacs (8) | 1994 | 1 | 68 | M | Papillary | 1 | Pleural effusion | Pericardium, cervical LN | + | − | + | − | + | − | + | N/A |
| Nomori (9) | 1997 | 1 | 68 | F | Papillary | − | No | Lung | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Perez (10) | 2003 | 1 | 66 | M | Papillary | − | Pleural effusion | − | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Siddaraju (11) | 2007 | 1 | 46 | M | Papillary | 1 | Pleural effusion | − | − | + | − | − | − | + | N/A | N/A |