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Graves' disease, follicular thyroid carcinoma and functioning pulmonary metastases
Author(s) -
Grayzel Estherann F.,
Bennett Boyce
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(197905)43:5<1885::aid-cncr2820430544>3.0.co;2-y
Subject(s) - medicine , thyroid , lung , biopsy , thyroidectomy , disease , follicular phase , carcinoma , thyroid carcinoma , thyroid cancer , follicular carcinoma , pathology , oncology , papillary carcinoma
We present a case with the unusual association of Graves' disease and functioning pulmonary metastases of follicular thyroid carcinoma. Unlike other reports of thyroid cancer and thyrotoxicosis, this patient's hyperthyroidism was related to a hyperfunctioning primary thyroid neoplasm and not merely to large amounts of functioning metastatic tumor. Thyroidectomy cured her hyperthyroidism. A lung biopsy confirmed the impression of metastatic thyroid cancer. Following therapeutic radioactive I 131 pulmonary metastases completely disappeared.