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"Collision tumors, rare neoplasms underlying two distinct histological types of carcinomas (with different origins) separated by normal tissue, are described in many organs including the thyroid gland, but to a lesser extent. We aim to overview the current published data concerning collision tumors of the thyroid (CTT). This is a narrative review considering papers published on PubMed through a search starting from the terms "collision" and "thyroid". Inclusion criteria are full-length articles, the English language, the timeline from inception to December 2022, and original studies with different levels of statistical evidence. We followed the main types of thyroid carcinomas: differentiated thyroid carcinoma of papillary and follicular type, anaplastic/ undifferentiated/poorly differentiated carcinoma, respectively medullary thyroid carcinoma. We identified 92 papers based on the mentioned key words criteria. We excluded 54 papers (reviews or non-thyroid CTT or other topics outside our purpose). We included in the final analysis 38 papers: 34 case reports (1 patient per paper), 2 case series (2 individuals per each article), one case series of 3 subjects, and a single study of retrospective type (including 21 subjects) – a total of 62 patients on published cases which represents the largest study on published cases to our knowledge (according to our methodology) "