Unusual Metastatic Spread of Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma: Report of a Case |
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Authors: | Nickos G. Kelessis Prassas P. Evangelos Dascalopoulou V. Dimitra Apostolikas A. Nikiforos Tavernaraki P. Angeliki Vassilopoulos P. Pericles |
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Affiliation: | (1) First Department of Surgical Oncology, Saint Savvas Anticancer Institute, 171 Alexandras Ave., 155 22 Athens, Greece;(2) Department of Cytology, Saint Savvas Anticancer Institute, 171 Alexandras Ave., 155 22 Athens, Greece;(3) Department of Pathology, Saint Savvas Anticancer Institute, 171 Alexandras Ave., 155 22 Athens, Greece;(4) Department of Radiology, Saint Savvas Anticancer Institute, 171 Alexandras Ave., 155 22 Athens, Greece |
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Abstract: | Concurrent skull and liver metastases from follicular thyroid carcinoma is a very rare event. We herein present the case of a 72-year-old woman who initially presented with a swelling in the right supraorbital region that proved to be metastasis from a well-differentiated follicular thyroid carcinoma of clear-cell type. The metastatic workup disclosed a huge liver metastasis and an additional metastasis in the left iliac fossa. The treatment of this patient included a total thyroidectomy, an excision of the skull lesion, and the administration of radioiodine therapy, as well as thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) suppression therapy. However, the course of her disease was relentless. Although well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma tends to show an excellent course, the presence of metastatic disease leads to a very dismal prognosis.An erratum to this article can be found at |
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Keywords: | Thyroid cancer Metastasis Skull Liver |
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