Follicular variant papillary thyroid carcinoma with a twist

•A rare case of cutaneous metastases in a thyroid cancer reported.•Usual features of FVPTC with a rare feature.•High index of suspicion required to help make diagnosis.•Histological analysis indispensible in arriving at confirmation.•Multi-disciplinary approach in management post surgical interventi...

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Main Authors: Nwaeze, Obinna, Obidike, Stephen, Mullen, Dorinda, Aftab, Fuad
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4353927/
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spelling pubmed-43539272015-03-31 Follicular variant papillary thyroid carcinoma with a twist Nwaeze, Obinna Obidike, Stephen Mullen, Dorinda Aftab, Fuad Case Report •A rare case of cutaneous metastases in a thyroid cancer reported.•Usual features of FVPTC with a rare feature.•High index of suspicion required to help make diagnosis.•Histological analysis indispensible in arriving at confirmation.•Multi-disciplinary approach in management post surgical intervention required. Elsevier 2015-01-14 /pmc/articles/PMC4353927/ /pubmed/25651538 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2015.01.019 Text en © 2015 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-SA license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/).
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author Nwaeze, Obinna
Obidike, Stephen
Mullen, Dorinda
Aftab, Fuad
spellingShingle Nwaeze, Obinna
Obidike, Stephen
Mullen, Dorinda
Aftab, Fuad
Follicular variant papillary thyroid carcinoma with a twist
author_facet Nwaeze, Obinna
Obidike, Stephen
Mullen, Dorinda
Aftab, Fuad
author_sort Nwaeze, Obinna
title Follicular variant papillary thyroid carcinoma with a twist
title_short Follicular variant papillary thyroid carcinoma with a twist
title_full Follicular variant papillary thyroid carcinoma with a twist
title_fullStr Follicular variant papillary thyroid carcinoma with a twist
title_full_unstemmed Follicular variant papillary thyroid carcinoma with a twist
title_sort follicular variant papillary thyroid carcinoma with a twist
description •A rare case of cutaneous metastases in a thyroid cancer reported.•Usual features of FVPTC with a rare feature.•High index of suspicion required to help make diagnosis.•Histological analysis indispensible in arriving at confirmation.•Multi-disciplinary approach in management post surgical intervention required.
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2015
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4353927/
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