Intradural extramedullary metastasis from papillary carcinoma of thyroid.
Although spinal metastasis is a common finding in malignancies, however intradural extramedullary metastasis is very rare. This paper presents a 71-year-old woman, known case of papillary carcinoma of thyroid with intradural extramedullary metastasis in thoracic spine.
Radiotherapy Department, Shahid Sadoghi University, Yazd, Iran. ali52akhavan@yahoo.com
Ali
A
Akhavan
Mohammad Reza
MR
Mehrabaniyan
Mohammadreza
M
Jarahi
Hossein
H
Navabii
D000368:Aged; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000556:secondary* / Q000628:therapy; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018714:Radiotherapy, Adjuvant; D013120:Spinal Cord Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary* / Q000628:therapy*; D013904:Thoracic Vertebrae; D000077273:Thyroid Cancer, Papillary; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary* / Q000628:therapy