TY - JOUR
T1 - Follicular thyroid carcinoma presenting as solitary skull metastasis
T2 - Report of two cases
AU - Shamim, Muhammad Shahzad
AU - Khursheed, Faraz
AU - Bari, Muhammad Ehsan
AU - Chisti, Khalid Naseem
AU - Enam, Syed Ather
PY - 2008/10
Y1 - 2008/10
N2 - 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.
AB - 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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M3 - Article
C2 - 18998315
AN - SCOPUS:56049116032
SN - 0030-9982
VL - 58
SP - 575
EP - 577
JO - Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
JF - Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association
IS - 10
ER -
