ea0031p379 | Thyroid | SFEBES2013
Parthasarathy Sathish Babu
, Alshahwan Sarah
, Srinath Aswathiah
, Schulte Klaus-Martin
, Terry Mark
, Vivian Gill
, Gilbert Jackie
Background: Differentiated thyroid cancers are reported to present with synchronous distant metastases in 19% of cases. The most common single sites of synchronous metastases are lung (45%) and bone (39%) with dual site involvement (12%). Other single sites of metastases are rare (4%). Pleural metastases are very unusual, accounting for < 0.6% of cases.Case: A 55-year-old male smoker presented with cough, weight loss and thoracic back pain. Exa...