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Thyroid Metastasis as First Manifestation of a Colon Adenocarcinoma With KRAS Mutation: Usefulness of 18F-FDG PET/CT.
Clinical nuclear medicine - 1 Oct 2017
Lecumberri Beatriz, López Elena, Coronado Mónica, Rodado Sonia, Castelo Beatriz
Abstract excerpt
The synchronous diagnosis of a thyroid metastasis and of the primary colon adenocarcinoma that produces it is very rare, with only 5 cases reported to date, all of them treated with thyroid surgery showing a mean survival of 7 months. An ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT in an asymptomatic 74-year-old woman with a thyroid cytology suggestive of malignancy but uncertain about the origin of the tumor revealed an stage IV colon...
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