title: Case report: brain metastases from papillary carcinoma thyroid.
abstract: Papillary carcinoma, the commonest thyroid malignancy, has a good prognosis and low incidence of distant metastases. Brain metastasis is extremely rare with a frequency of 0.1-5% in reported series. The clinical details of two cases of histologically proven brain metastases from papillary thyroid cancer treated in our centre are presented. In one patient, the lesion was in the cerebellar hemisphere, and in the other, the frontal lobe. Also presented is a review of the literature of this unusual clinical presentation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiotherapy and Clinical Oncology, Regional Cancer Centre, Trivandrum, India.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jyothirmayi
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Edison
authors.forename: P P
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Nayar
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Nair
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rajan
mesh_terms: D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D002528:Cerebellar Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D005625:Frontal Lobe; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed