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Late sino-nasal metastasis from follicular thyroid carcinoma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

V. L. Cumberworth*
Affiliation:
ENT and Pathology Departments, West Middlesex University Hospital, Isleworth.
A. Ohri
Affiliation:
ENT and Pathology Departments, West Middlesex University Hospital, Isleworth.
G. Morrissey
Affiliation:
ENT and Pathology Departments, West Middlesex University Hospital, Isleworth.
R. Stirling
Affiliation:
ENT and Pathology Departments, West Middlesex University Hospital, Isleworth.
*
Mr V. L. Cumberworth, 14 Grafton Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 4QT.

Abstract

We report a rare case of metastasis of a follicular carcinoma of the thyroid to the sino-nasal cavity 12 years after diagnosis and treatment of the primary malignancy and review the literature of previously reported cases.

Type
Pathology in Focus
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1994

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