Adrenal Metastasis from a Primary Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

Nils Wagenaar; Jan Wolter Adriaan Oosterhuis; Lawrence Rozendaal; Emile Comans; Suat Simsek

doi:10.2169/internalmedicine.47.1582

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Adrenal Metastasis from a Primary Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma

Nils Wagenaar, Jan Wolter Adriaan Oosterhuis, Lawrence Rozendaal, Emile Comans, Suat Simsek

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Keywords: papillary thyroid carcinoma, adrenal metastasis, total body iodine scan, PET-CT

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2008 Volume 47 Issue 24 Pages 2165-2168

DOI https://doi.org/10.2169/internalmedicine.47.1582

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Abstract

Distant metastases of a papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is rare, and usually involves the lung or the bones. Adrenal metastasis of a PTC has been described only in three patients. We describe a 74-year-old woman with adrenal metastasis of a PTC, detected with a total body iodine scan and a PET-CT scan.

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