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Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Metastases Presenting as Ipsilateral Adrenal Mass and Renal Cyst
Serge Ginzburg1, Madhu Reddy2, Colleen Veloski3
1Department of Surgical Oncology, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Department of Urology, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Abstract:
Metastatic spread of differentiated thyroid cancer to genitourinary organs is rare. Synchronous presentation of renal and adrenal thyroid metastasis is even less common, this case being only the 3rd reported. We describe a case of a 60-year-old male with oligometastatic thyroid cancer, where adrenal and renal metastases were the only extracervical sites of disease and triggered the patient's presentation.
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