Thyroid Storm Due to Functioning Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma in a Burn Patient

Authors :: Masaki Sawada
Tetsuhiro Sone
Yoshiyuki Naito
Kazuo Yamazaki
Kazuya Kataoka
Source :: Anesthesiology. 87:433-435
Publication Year :: 1997
Publisher :: Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 1997.
Abstract: Thyroid storm as a result of functioning metastatic thyroid carcinoma is exceedingly rare. 1 We describe a patient with functioning distant metastases from adenocarcinoma of the thyroid in whom thyroid storm developed in the course of care for extensive burns.