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Gac Med Mex 2001; 137 (4)

Cranial Metastasis of a Follicular Carcinoma of the Thyroid. Case Report

Calderón-Garcidueñas AL, González-Schaffinni MA, Farías-García R, Rey-Laborde R

Language: Spanish
References: 12
Page: 357-360
PDF size: 117.95 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Thyroid follicular carcinoma is able to produce metastasic lesions before the vanishing of the primary lesion. We present a case of a woman with a lytic, solitary, asymptomatic parietal bone lesion of 2 years of evolution. Autopsy revealed a thyroid gland with two small cystic areas and renal metastasis. Thyroid carcinoma should be included in the differential diagnosis in cases of lytic bone lesions with long evolution in patients 60 years of age or older.


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