Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma in Ectopic Thyroid Tissue Within a Suspected Cervical Paraganglioma.

Sambo Salas, Marcel Ernesto; Muñoz Moreno, Diego; Fernandez, Laura Gonzalez; Nuñez Ramos, Patricia; Cebollero Presmanes, Maria · Clin Nucl Med · 2022

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

Ectopic differentiated thyroid carcinoma represents less than 1% of all thyroid carcinoma cases, which usually arises along the cervical midline, and (delving into literature) there are scarce reports of such entity in nuclear medicine imaging studies. We present a rare case of a confirmed synchronous, orthotopic, and heterotopic (in lateral ectopic thyroid tissue) differentiated thyroid carcinoma in a patient who was previously misdiagnosed as having a cervical paraganglioma, based on compatible clinical, analytical, and imagenological (both structural and functional) findings.

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