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Fatima Yousaf1, Ayesha Zubair1, Hajira Ilyas2
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre, Lahore, Pakistan.
Abstract:
Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women all over the world and commonly metastasizes to lymph nodes, bones, lungs liver and brain. There is a slight increase in incidence of second primary malignancy in thyroid gland of patients with breast cancer. However, thyroid gland is a rare site of breast cancer metastatic spread. We present a rare case of breast carcinoma with incidental uptake on F18-FDG PET-CT which was histologically confirmed to be thyroid cancer.
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