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Spontaneous Murine Model of Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer
Published on: February 3, 2023
Follicular carcinoma of the thyroid with poorly differentiated component presenting with an ileal osteoblastic
1Department of Endocrinology, Universitaire Ziekenhuizen, Leuven, Belgium. gerd.vanhaverbeke@uz.kuleuven.ac.be
Abstract:
A 4-year old history of left hip pain brought a 41-year-old women to the surgery clinic where an osteoblastic tumor in the ileum and a thyroid nodule were diagnosed. Incisional biopsy of the ileal lesion showed a metastatic carcinoma, possibly with neuroendocrine differentiation. The thyroid nodule was a follicular carcinoma with progression to insular carcinoma. In retrospect the histologic aspect of the ileal metastasis was identical to that of the insular areas in the thyroid carcinoma. In summary, a patient is described with an osteoblastic metastasis, derived from the insular component of a dedifferentiated follicular carcinoma of the thyroid.
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