title: Unsual bone metastasis to the rib and the tibia of a follicular variant of papillary thyroid carcinoma.
abstract: Usually differentiated thyroid cancer is a slow growing tumor with low metastatic potential. We present the case of female patient of 26-years-old who underwent thyroidectomy, followed by 3.7 GBq of 131 I. The post-therapeutic whole-body scan showed intense uptake in the left part of posterior thorax and a faint radioactivity in the upper right tibia. A Chest CT-scan and a localized knee MRI confirm that they are bone metastasis in the middle portion of the 8th right rib and in the upper tibial metaphysic.
authors: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Military Hospital of Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia. sellem_ali@yahoo.fr.
authors: Ali
authors: A
authors: Sellem
authors: Wassim
authors: W
authors: Elajmi
authors: Yazid
authors: Y
authors: Mahjoub
authors: Hatem
authors: H
authors: Hammami
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012272:Ribs / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D000077273:Thyroid Cancer, Papillary; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D013977:Tibia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed