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An Orthotopic Mouse Model of Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma
Published on: April 17, 2013
[Coincidence of unifocal thyroid autonomy and follicular carcinoma. Case report]
A Einert1, H Blattmann, M Reinhardt
1Abteilung Nuklearmedizin, Radiologische Universitätsklinik, Freiburg.
Abstract:
The case is reported of a 53-year-old man with differentiated thyroid carcinoma within a hot nodule and typical scintigraphic findings of a unifocal adenoma. Preoperative cytology revealed no malignancy. The preliminary histological diagnosis after hemithyroidectomy on the right side was follicular adenoma. The final histological evaluation, however, revealed follicular carcinoma of the thyroid gland. As a result, a thyroidectomy was performed with postoperative radioiodine treatment. The combination of thyroid carcinoma and hot nodules is extremely rare. In all cases of rapid growing nodules or other abnormalities of the thyroid cytological and/or histological verification is mandatory.
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