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Thyroid Cancer Initially Presenting Compression Fracture without Common Thyroid Symptoms
Dong Hwan Kim1, Seung Don Yoo, Sung Min Kim
1Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, College of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul 130-701, Korea.
Abstract:
Thyroid carcinoma is the commonest endocrinological malignancy. After papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) is the second most common histological subtype. Common presentations of FTC include a solitary thyroid nodule and cervical lymphadenopathy. The incidence of individuals diagnosed with thyroid cancer showing initially distant metastatic disease ranges from 1 to 9%. Also, the incidence of solitary bone metastasis from thyroid is only 2 to 3%. We report a case of a patient with FTC whose initial presentation was low back pain and right buttock pain due to vertebral metastasis rather than the usual neck lumps or symptoms of thyroid disease.
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