PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - BIYI, Abdelhamid
AU  - ZAÏMI, Soukaina
AU  - DOUDOUH, Abderrahim
TI  - BONE FUNCTIONING METASTASES REVELING A PAPILLARY CARCINOMA OF THE THYROID
AID  - 10.2967/jnmt.116.174573
DP  - 2016 Jun 01
TA  - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
PG  - jnmt.116.174573
4099  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/early/2016/06/29/jnmt.116.174573.short
4100  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/early/2016/06/29/jnmt.116.174573.full
AB  - Functioning thyroid metastases are a rare cause of hyperthyroidism. Most of them are follicular carcinoma. Here, we report a case of 62 years old man with a past history of right sub total thyroidectomy for a benign adenoma. Recently, he complained of symptoms of hyperthyroidism associated with left arm pain. Biopsy of the humeral lesion was consistent with a papillary carcinoma of the thyroid metastasis. Postoperatively, he received a cumulative dose of 14.8 GBq of 131-I with a good control of hyperthyroidism but without eradication of the bone metastases.