Metastatic Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma to the Thymus in a 35-year-old Woman.
10.3349/ymj.2002.43.5.665
- Author:
Moon Suk NAM
1
;
Young Chae CHU
;
Won Sick CHOE
;
Sei Joong KIM
;
Seong Bin HONG
;
Yoe Joo KIM
;
Yong Seong KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Internal Medicine, Inha University Hospital, Incheon, Korea. namms@inha.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Follicular thyroid carcinoma;
metastasis;
thymus;
iodine131 therapy;
resection
- MeSH:
Adenocarcinoma, Follicular/*secondary;
Adult;
Case Report;
Female;
Human;
Iodine Radioisotopes/diagnostic use;
Thymus Neoplasms/*secondary;
Thyroid Neoplasms/*pathology/radionuclide imaging/surgery;
Tomography, Emission-Computed
- From:Yonsei Medical Journal
2002;43(5):665-669
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
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
