title: Follicular thyroid carcinoma presenting as solitary skull metastasis: report of two cases.
abstract: We report two otherwise healthy patients with no prior history of thyroid cancer, who presented to us with a solitary scalp lump. Neuroimaging of both patients showed osteolytic lesions involving the cranium which were subjected to complete excision biopsy and cranioplasty. Histopathological examination revealed metastases from well differentiated follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC). Subsequent workup confirmed occult primary carcinoma of the thyroid gland in both patients.
authors.affiliation: Department of Neurosurgery, Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Muhammad Shahzad
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Shamim
authors.forename: Faraz
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Khursheed
authors.forename: Muhammad Ehsan
authors.initials: ME
authors.lastname: Bari
authors.forename: Khalid Naseem
authors.initials: KN
authors.lastname: Chisti
authors.forename: Syed Ather
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Enam
mesh_terms: D018263:Adenocarcinoma, Follicular / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012888:Skull Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000601:surgery; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome