Occult carcinoma of the thyroid presenting with orbital metastasis

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 109-111

  Mansberg, Robert ^a,b,c   Son, Hannah ^a   Kean, Anne Marie ^a,b  

^a ROYAL PRINCE ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c Department of Nuclear Medicine ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Iodine 131 therapy; Orbital mass; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GROWTH; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ORBIT METASTASIS; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; TUMOR BIOPSY; ADENOCARCINOMA; EYE TUMOR; METASTASIS; NEOPLASM; SCINTISCANNING; THYROID TUMOR;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; AGED; EYE NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; NEOPLASMS, UNKNOWN PRIMARY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33646078139     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rlu.0000196605.16989.ef     Document Type: Article

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