Abstract:Follicular thyroid carcinoma accounts for 15% of thyroid cancer, which occurs more commonly in the elderly women. This type of thyroid cancer is usually characterized by a palpable nodule in thyroid gland, but occult metastasis of follicular thyroid carcinoma is rare and unusual. Herein, we report an 81-year-old woman with a history of palpable small mass at frontal bone with a progressive enlargement and an accelerated growth, with 1 in the last 12 months. At present, true size of tumor is 5.56Â 9.84 cm in fr… Show more
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