Occult Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Metastasis to the Sacrum and the Skull: An Unusual Presentation

This case represents occult follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma (FVPTC) with large metastasis to the sacrum. The patient, a 42-year-old female, presented after hemithyroidectomy for benign follicular adenoma with lower back pain associated with fever and sweating. A lytic lesion of the...

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Autores principales: Jouhar, Fatima S., Quadri, Asif, Afandi, Bachar, Al Rawi, Sadir
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4273593/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25544844
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/516549
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author Jouhar, Fatima S.
Quadri, Asif
Afandi, Bachar
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description This case represents occult follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma (FVPTC) with large metastasis to the sacrum. The patient, a 42-year-old female, presented after hemithyroidectomy for benign follicular adenoma with lower back pain associated with fever and sweating. A lytic lesion of the left sacral bone was found on the CT with biopsy showing metastatic carcinoma with morphology and immunophenotype of thyroid gland primary tumor proven to be FVPTC. The patient had completion thyroidectomy with benign pathology.
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spelling pubmed-42735932014-12-28 Occult Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Metastasis to the Sacrum and the Skull: An Unusual Presentation Jouhar, Fatima S. Quadri, Asif Afandi, Bachar Al Rawi, Sadir Case Rep Med Case Report This case represents occult follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma (FVPTC) with large metastasis to the sacrum. The patient, a 42-year-old female, presented after hemithyroidectomy for benign follicular adenoma with lower back pain associated with fever and sweating. A lytic lesion of the left sacral bone was found on the CT with biopsy showing metastatic carcinoma with morphology and immunophenotype of thyroid gland primary tumor proven to be FVPTC. The patient had completion thyroidectomy with benign pathology. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-12-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4273593/ /pubmed/25544844 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/516549 Text en Copyright © 2014 Fatima S. Jouhar 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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title Occult Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Metastasis to the Sacrum and the Skull: An Unusual Presentation
title_full Occult Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Metastasis to the Sacrum and the Skull: An Unusual Presentation
title_fullStr Occult Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Metastasis to the Sacrum and the Skull: An Unusual Presentation
title_full_unstemmed Occult Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Metastasis to the Sacrum and the Skull: An Unusual Presentation
title_short Occult Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Metastasis to the Sacrum and the Skull: An Unusual Presentation
title_sort occult papillary thyroid carcinoma metastasis to the sacrum and the skull: an unusual presentation
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4273593/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25544844
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/516549
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