Vahid Haghpanah, Syed Imran Abbas, Hossein Mahmoodzadeh, Abdolreza Shojaei, Ali Soleimani, Bagher Larijani, Seyed Mohammad Tavangar.
Paraplegia as initial presentation of follicular thyroid carcinoma.
J Coll Physicians Surg Pak Jan ;16(3):233-4.

Follicular thyroid carcinoma with metastasis rarely presents with clinical picture of spinal cord compression. This report describes a 53 years old patient with follicular thyroid carcinoma who presented with paraplegia and urinary incontinence. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of neck revealed a mass with destruction of C5 and extension to C6. Histopathology study demonstrated metastatic carcinoma of thyroid.

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