Follicular thyroid carcinoma presenting with pathological fracture of the humerus at initial diagnosis.
Loading...
Embargo End Date
ICR Authors
Authors
Yang, W
Cho, W
Das, S
Conboy, P
Cho, W
Das, S
Conboy, P
Document Type
Journal Article
Date
2017-01-19
Date Accepted
2017-01-03
Abstract
Differentiated carcinomas of the thyroid gland usually have a good prognosis with prognosis often discussed in terms of 20 year survival. Nevertheless its 10-year-survival rate decreases when accompanied by distant metastasis. Follicular thyroid cancer (FTC) is the second most common thyroid cancer and usually presents with a solitary thyroid nodule with or without cervical lymphadenopathy. Distance metastasis at initial diagnosis is seldom observed with incidence range from 1 to 9%. In cases of bone metastasis, the incidence is only 2-3% and weight-bearing skeleton is preferentially affected. In our case, we present a patient with FTC that metastasized to the upper limb causing severe pain and pathological fracture at the initial presentation.
Citation
Journal of Surgical Case Reports, 2017, 2017 (1), pp. rjx002 - rjx002
Source Title
Journal of Surgical Case Reports
Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
ISSN
eISSN
2042-8812
2042-8812
2042-8812