Solitary cerebral metastasis from a papillary carcinoma of the thyroid.
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Solitary cerebral metastasis from a papillary carcinoma of the thyroid.
A woman aged 52 was treated with radioactive iodine for a papillary carcinoma of the thyroid. Four years later she developed signs and symptoms of an intracranial space occupying lesion. A computed tomographic scan showed a mass in the right posterior frontal region. Although she was suspected of having metastatic disease a definite diagnosis was not established until she died 6 months later wh...
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عنوان ژورنال: Postgraduate Medical Journal
سال: 1990
ISSN: 0032-5473
DOI: 10.1136/pgmj.66.772.127