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| Year : 2018 | Volume
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A rare case of synchronous papillary microcarcinoma and metastatic neuroendocrine tumor of unknown primary
Shambo Guha Roy1, Sarthak Tripathy1, Girish Kumar Parida1, Shipra Agarwal2, Chandrasekhar Bal1
1 Department of Nuclear Medicine, All Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
2 Department of Pathology, All Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
Prof. Chandrasekhar Bal
Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi - 110 029
India
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DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_58_17
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Thyroid papillary microcarcinomas (PMCs) usually follow a very benign clinical course and are rarely metastatic. Any case of PMC presenting with distant metastases without any rising thyroglobulin level should be suspected to have any other primary apart from the thyroid and a meticulous clinical and diagnostic approach should be considered to identify the second primary. We hereby present a case of 52-year-old female treated as PMC with metastatic liver lesion, which was initially thought to be of thyroidal origin. Later, it was diagnosed as a metastatic neuroendocrine tumor of unknown primary.
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