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Substernal Thyroid Biopsy Using Endobronchial Ultrasound-guided Transbronchial Needle Aspiration
Published on: November 10, 2014
Graves' disease, follicular thyroid carcinoma and functioning pulmonary metastases
Abstract:
We present a case with the unusual association of Graves' disease and functioning pulmonary metastases of follicular thyroid carcinoma. Unlike other reports of thyroid cancer and thyrotoxicosis, this patient's hyperthyroidism was related to a hyperfunctioning primary thyroid neoplasm and not merely to large amounts of functioning metastatic tumor. Thyroidectomy cured her hyperthyroidism. A lung biopsy confirmed the impression of metastatic thyroid cancer. Following therapeutic radioactive I131 pulmonary metastases completely disappeared.
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