Abstract
Thyroid carcinoma with cranial scalp metastasis is an unusual site. Although these metastases have poor prognosis, early diagnosis and administration of accurate therapy using radioactive iodine seems likely to improve the survival rate and the quality of life. We report a case of a 50-years old woman presented to our ENT department with a slowly evolving lesion in the subcutaneous tissue of the skull occurred 10 years after right lobo-isthmectomy. The treatment was based on resection of the skull lesion as well as thyroid totalization and radioactive iodine
Highlights
Differentiated thyroid cancers are usually revealed by cervical swelling and are generally of good prognosis
We report a case of a 50-years old woman presented to our ENT department with a slowly evolving lesion in the subcutaneous tissue of the skull occurred 10 years after right lobo-isthmectomy
The patient was operated with excision of the tumor, anatomopathological examination concluded a metastasis of papillary thyroid carcinoma, afterwards she was presented to our ENT department, the patient had undergone a thyroid totalization pointing out the same histopathological type (Figure 2), followed by radioactive iodine therapy
Summary
Unusual Metastases Site of Thyroid Papillary Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. Hicham Ngham*, Bushra Abdulhakeem, Lyoubi Hicham, Omar Wydadi, Youssef Oukessou, Reda Allah Abada, Sami Rouadi, Mohammed Roubal, Mohammed Mahtar ENT and Head and Neck Surgery, Hospital August 20, 1953, Ibn Rochd Teaching Hospital, Casablanca, Morocco
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