Uncommon Presentation of Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma: when Chronic Back Pain Should Raise a Flag
Alvarado, M.; Ramirez, M.; Lopez, L.; Marcos-Martinez, M.J.; Saavedra, F.M.; Negron-Rivei, J.C.; Agosto, M.; Martinez, M.; Gonzalez, R.; Allende-Vigo, M.
Boletin de la Asociacion Medica de Puerto Rico 106(4): 22-25
2014
ISSN/ISBN: 0004-4849 PMID: 26148394 Document Number: 702735
Follicular thyroid carcinoma is the second most common type of thyroid cancer, and its incidence has increased dramatically in recent years. Although it typically presents as a thyroid nodule, it can spread to distant sites via hematogenous dissemination. Spinal cord compression complicating thyroid carcinoma is rare with only few cases reported in the literature. This case illustrates a minimally invasive follicular carcinoma that showed such an aggressive behavior, and thus the importance of considering metastatic thyroid carcinoma in the differential diagnosis of chronic back pain, which may possibly progress to spinal cord compression carrying severe morbidity.
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