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Rare disease
Intradural extramedullary metastasis from papillary carcinoma of thyroid
  1. Ali Akhavan1,
  2. Mohammad Reza Mehrabaniyan2,
  3. Mohammadreza Jarahi3,
  4. Hossein Navabii4
  1. 1Radiotherapy Department, Shahid Sadoghi University, Yazd, Iran
  2. 2Neurosurgery Department, Shahid Sadoghi University, Yazd, Iran
  3. 3Pathology Department, Shahid Sadoghi University, Yazd, Iran
  4. 4Shahid Sadoghi Hospital, Yazd, Iran
  1. Correspondence to Dr Ali Akhavan, ali52akhavan{at}yahoo.com

Summary

Although spinal metastasis is a common finding in malignancies, however intradural extramedullary metastasis is very rare. This paper presents a 71-year-old woman, known case of papillary carcinoma of thyroid with intradural extramedullary metastasis in thoracic spine.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr.02.2012.5801

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