| Literature DB >> 30344789 |
Meghana Prabhu1, Deepali Jain2, Siddhartha Datta Gupta2, Chandrasekhar Bal1, Rakesh Kumar1.
Abstract
Thyroid carcinoma is the most common neoplasm of endocrine malignancies. Differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) constitutes 90% of the thyroid carcinomas, rest being medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC), and anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC). Distant metastases occur in up to 10% of patients with DTC. Metastases to axillary lymph nodes (ALN) are very rare. As per literature, only 25 cases have been reported. We report an unusual case of 47-year-old male with Hürthle cell carcinoma of the thyroid presenting with a solitary axillary lymph node metastasis 17 years after thyroidectomy, along with review of literature.Entities:
Keywords: 18F-FDG PET/CT; Axillary lymph node metastasis; Hürthle cell carcinoma of the thyroid; Recurrence
Year: 2018 PMID: 30344789 PMCID: PMC6177346 DOI: 10.1007/s13139-018-0539-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Nucl Med Mol Imaging ISSN: 1869-3474