Yonsei Med J.  2002 Oct;43(5):665-669. 10.3349/ymj.2002.43.5.665.

Metastatic Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma to the Thymus in a 35-year-old Woman

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Internal Medicine, Inha University Hospital, Incheon, Korea. namms@inha.ac.kr
  • 2Department of Pathology, Inha University College of Medicine, Incheon, Korea.
  • 3Department of Nuclear Medicine, Inha University College of Medicine, Incheon, Korea.
  • 4Department of 4General Surgery, Inha University College of Medicine, Incheon, Korea.

Abstract

Clinically detectable metastatic follicular thyroid carcinoma to the thymus is very rare in the literature and sometimes confused with false positive uptake of Iodine

Keyword

Follicular thyroid carcinoma; metastasis; thymus; iodine131 therapy; resection

MeSH Terms

Adenocarcinoma, Follicular/*secondary
Adult
Case Report
Female
Human
Iodine Radioisotopes/diagnostic use
Thymus Neoplasms/*secondary
Thyroid Neoplasms/*pathology/radionuclide imaging/surgery
Tomography, Emission-Computed

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