Parapharyngeal lymph node involvement in papillary thyroid carcinoma.
Papillary thyroid cancer extends to lymphatic nodes in approximately 40% of cases. Node involvement often occurs in the internal jugular and recurrent laryngeal chain on the side of the lesion. To the authors' knowledge, only 4 cases with I-131 uptake in pharyngeal metastatic nodes have been reported previously in the literature. The authors report parapharyngeal node involvement demonstrated by I-131 scintigraphy in a patient with papillary thyroid cancer.
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ankara Numune Research and Training Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. hortapamuk@yahoo.com
Hulya
H
Ortapamuk
Pelin
P
Arican
Almýla
A
Alp
D000328:Adult; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D010614:Pharynx; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D013965:Thyroidectomy
D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes