Occult Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma Presenting as a Frontal Bone Metastasis: A Case Report

This is a rare case of metastatic follicular carcinoma of thyroid in a patient with no history of thyroid problem. A frontal bone mass was examined microscopically and showed the pattern of metastatic follicular carcinoma. Thyroid ultrasonography then revealed a nodule in left lobe. Total thyroidect...

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Autores principales: Tahamtan, Mahmoudreza, Mokhtari, Maral, Pakbaz, Sara, Tahamtan, Mehdi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3295547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22431938
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/678935
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author Tahamtan, Mahmoudreza
Mokhtari, Maral
Pakbaz, Sara
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description This is a rare case of metastatic follicular carcinoma of thyroid in a patient with no history of thyroid problem. A frontal bone mass was examined microscopically and showed the pattern of metastatic follicular carcinoma. Thyroid ultrasonography then revealed a nodule in left lobe. Total thyroidectomy was done for the patient and microscopic examination confirmed the diagnosis.
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spelling pubmed-32955472012-03-19 Occult Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma Presenting as a Frontal Bone Metastasis: A Case Report Tahamtan, Mahmoudreza Mokhtari, Maral Pakbaz, Sara Tahamtan, Mehdi Case Rep Med Case Report This is a rare case of metastatic follicular carcinoma of thyroid in a patient with no history of thyroid problem. A frontal bone mass was examined microscopically and showed the pattern of metastatic follicular carcinoma. Thyroid ultrasonography then revealed a nodule in left lobe. Total thyroidectomy was done for the patient and microscopic examination confirmed the diagnosis. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-02-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3295547/ /pubmed/22431938 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/678935 Text en Copyright © 2012 Mahmoudreza Tahamtan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Occult Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma Presenting as a Frontal Bone Metastasis: A Case Report
title Occult Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma Presenting as a Frontal Bone Metastasis: A Case Report
title_full Occult Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma Presenting as a Frontal Bone Metastasis: A Case Report
title_fullStr Occult Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma Presenting as a Frontal Bone Metastasis: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Occult Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma Presenting as a Frontal Bone Metastasis: A Case Report
title_short Occult Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma Presenting as a Frontal Bone Metastasis: A Case Report
title_sort occult follicular thyroid carcinoma presenting as a frontal bone metastasis: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3295547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22431938
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/678935
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