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Endoscopic Endonasal Trans-sphenoidal Approach: Minimally Invasive Surgery for Pituitary Adenomas
Published on: January 17, 2018
Metastases in the sphenoidal sinus in a patient with papillary thyroid cancer
Sonia Argibay Vázquez1, Carmen Lancha Hernández, Angel Martínez Muñiz
1Unidad de Medicina Nuclear, Hospital Modelo, La Coruña, Spain.
Abstract:
Tumours that produce metastases in the paranasal sinuses or sphenoidal sinus are rare; the carcinomas of kidney and lung being the most frequent with this type of metastasis. Distant metastases from differentiated thyroid carcinoma are rare and, moreover, when they metastasize, they do so into lung and bone. We report a patient who had a papillary thyroid carcinoma with metastases into the sphenoidal sinus.
