Solitary skull metastasis from occult thyroid carcinoma.
Metastatic tumors to the skull, though relatively rare, are most often from lung, breast or prostate. In this report, we describe a case of skull metastasis from occult thyroid carcinoma and discuss the differential diagnosis of these lesions.
Hacettepe University, School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
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D018263:Adenocarcinoma, Follicular / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D002533:Cerebral Angiography; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009382:Neoplasms, Unknown Primary / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D012888:Skull Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013965:Thyroidectomy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed