Turkish Neurosurgery 1996 , Vol 6 , Num 3-4
FRONTAL EPIDURAL METASTASIS OF FOLLICULAR THYROID CARCINOMA
Metin GÜNER1, Arif ÜSÜN1, Engin UÇAR1, Neriman GÖKDEN2, Emek ÜZEN2
1Dokuz Eylül University School of Medicine, Departments of Neurosurgery, Izmir, Turkey
2Dokuz Eylül University School of Medicine, Departments of Pathology, Izmir, Turkey
Papillary-follicular thyroid carcinoma usually remains localized to the thyroid bed, and in cases of metastasis, almost always involves the lungs, bones, or liver. Brain metastasis is rare and there has been no reported case of epidural metastasis of thyroid carcinomas in the literature up to date. A frontal epidural mass lesion was excised and histologically found to be a follicular thyroid carcinoma metastasis. Keywords : Carcinoma, epidural, metastasis, thyroid
Corresponding author : Metin Güner