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Year : 2016 | Volume
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Mandibular metastasis with pulmonary cannon balls: Presentation of follicular carcinoma thyroid
Kaushik Saha1, Debraj Jash2, Arnab Maji3
1 Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Burdwan Medical College and Hospital, Burdwan, India 2 Registrar, CMRI, Kolkata, West Bengal, India 3 Consultant Pulmonologist, Burdwan Medical College and Hospital, Burdwan, India
Correspondence Address:
Kaushik Saha Rabindra Pally, 1st Lane, P.O. - Nimta, Kolkata - 700 049, West Bengal India
Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/0975-2870.168007
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Swelling of the jaw due to metastatic lesions needs careful search for an occult malignancy. Thyroid carcinoma is a rare cause of jaw bone metastasis. A 70-year-old female presented in our chest clinic with progressive shortness of breath for last 1-month and associated painful swelled right jaw for last 4 months. Her computed tomography scan thorax showed bilateral cannon ball metastasis involving all lobes of the lung. Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) from radiographically evident osteolytic lesion of the mandible was suggestive of metastatic carcinoma probably of thyroid origin. Ultrasonography of the thyroid gland revealed well-defined hypoechoic nodule (measuring about 2 cm × 1.8 cm) with few foci of calcification. FNAC from the thyroid nodule followed by immunocytochemistry was suggestive of follicular carcinoma of the thyroid. We report a very rare presentation, as jaw metastasis in follicular carcinoma of the thyroid. |
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