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Metastatic follicular thyroid carcinoma to the kidney: a case report
L Garcia-Sanchis1, D Lopez-Aznar, A Oltra
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, La Fe University Hospital, Valencia, Spain.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|January 16, 1999
Abstract:
Clinically detectable well-differentiated metastatic thyroid cancer to the kidney is rare, with only 12 cases reported in the medical literature. The authors report a case of metastatic thyroid carcinoma to the kidney in a patient with widespread dissemination. She underwent total thyroidectomy, radical left nephrectomy, radioactive ablation with I-131, radiotherapy, and thyroid suppression therapy. Well-differentiated thyroid metastatic cancer can be amenable to treatment with successful long-term results.