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Vahid Haghpanah1, Syed Imran Abbas, Hossein Mahmoodzadeh, Abdolreza Shojaei, Ali Soleimani, Bagher Larijani, Seyed Mohammad Tavangar.
Abstract
Follicular thyroid carcinoma with metastasis rarely presents with clinical picture of spinal cord compression. This report describes a 53 years old patient with follicular thyroid carcinoma who presented with paraplegia and urinary incontinence. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of neck revealed a mass with destruction of C5 and extension to C6. Histopathology study demonstrated metastatic carcinoma of thyroid.Entities:
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Year: 2006 PMID: 16542610 DOI: 3.2006/JCPSP.233234
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Coll Physicians Surg Pak ISSN: 1022-386X Impact factor: 0.711