[Clinical study of metastasis of thyroid differentiated carcinoma]

The Authors report 5 cases of distant metastases of well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma over a number of 114 patients operated for thyroid neoplasm (4.3%). In 101 pts was total thyrodectomy performed, in 13 pts underwent istmo lobectomy. Distant metastases were verified in 3 patients with follicular and in 2 patients with papillary carcinoma. In 2 cases the metastases were in lungs, in 2 cases are the bone, and in one patient in lungs and bones. In 3 patients istmolobectomy had been performed at first operation. All the patients were treated with radioiodine. Three patients were alive after 3, 5 e 10 years from the diagnosis of metastases, 2 of them are presently disease free.