Follicular thyroid carcinoma presenting as solitary skull metastasis: report of two cases.
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We report two otherwise healthy patients with no prior history of thyroid cancer, who presented to us with a solitary scalp lump. Neuroimaging of both patients showed osteolytic lesions involving the cranium which were subjected to complete excision biopsy and cranioplasty. Histopathological examination revealed metastases from well differentiated follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC). Subsequent workup confirmed occult primary carcinoma of the thyroid gland in both patients.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- JPMA. The Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
دوره 58 10 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2008