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Intravascular Metastasis at the Internal Jugular Vein From Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma
Author(s) -
Choi Seon Hyeong,
Chung Ki-Wook,
Min Hye Sook,
Kim Eun-Kyung
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of ultrasound in medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.574
H-Index - 91
eISSN - 1550-9613
pISSN - 0278-4297
DOI - 10.7863/jum.2010.29.4.659
Subject(s) - medicine , metastasis , thyroid cancer , cancer , papillary thyroid cancer , radiology , general surgery
Follicular thyroid carcinoma (FTC) is the second most common thyroid malignancy and accounts for approximately 10% of all thyroid malignancies.' Lymph node metastases are uncommon, and distant pulmonary or bony metastases are more common in patients with FTC than papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC). Metastasis to the internal jugular vein (IJV) from a thyroid malignancy is not common, and most are direct invasions from the outside wall of the IJV. However, our case was a hematogenous intravascular metastasis that was easily diagnosed by sonographically guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB).