Thyroid follicular carcinoma metastasized to the lung, skull, and brain 12 years after initial treatment for thyroid gland - Case report

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 302-305

  Ogawa, Yoshikazu ^a,b   Sugawara, Takayuki ^a   Seki, Hirobumi ^a   Sakuma, Tutomu ^a  

^a Iwate Prefectural Central Hospital   (Japan)

^b KOHNAN HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Intracranial metastasis; Thyroid follicular carcinoma; Thyroid transcription factor 1

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; LEVOTHYROXINE SODIUM; THYROXINE;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; BONE METASTASIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DEATH; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LUNG METASTASIS; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROGNOSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RADIOSURGERY; THYROID FOLLICULAR CARCINOMA; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADENOCARCINOMA, FOLLICULAR; AGED; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EPIDURAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LUNG; LUNG NEOPLASMS; OCCIPITAL BONE; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PARIETAL BONE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOSURGERY; SKULL NEOPLASMS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; THYROXINE;

EID: 33745500976     PISSN: 04708105     EISSN: 13498029     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.46.302     Document Type: Article

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