OCCIPITAL BONE METASTASIS REVEALING A PAPILLARY THYROID CARCINOMA: CASE REPORT
Kaoutar Soussy
, Maroua Biyoud
, Noureddine Slassi
, Mohammed Ait Erraisse
, Wissal Hassani
, Fatima Zahra Farhane
, Zenab Alami
and Touria Bouhafa
- Radiation Oncology Department, Oncology Hospital, Hassan II University Hospital, Fes, Morocco.
- Medical Physics Unit, Hassan II University Hospital, Fes, Morocco.
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A 45-years-old manwas diagnosed with occipital bone metastasis of papillary thyroid carcinoma. He presented an eight cm occipital bone mass with two years of evolution. The CT scan showed an81,3 x 52,7 x 61 mmtumour of occipital bone with meningeal, brain and soft tissue invasion. The biopsy confirmed thyroid origin of the mass.Three other osteolytic lesions were noted: left ischium, D4 and L1 with medullary canal invasion.He received a total dose of 20Gy of conformal 3D radiotherapy in 5 fractions, at a daily dose fraction of 4Gy over one week to the four lesions.
Kaoutar Soussy, Maroua Biyoud, Noureddine Slassi, Mohammed Ait Erraisse, Wissal Hassani, Fatima Zahra Farhane, Zenab Alami and Touria Bouhafa (2023); OCCIPITAL BONE METASTASIS REVEALING A PAPILLARY THYROID CARCINOMA: CASE REPORT, Int. J. of Adv. Res., 11 (04), 65-68, ISSN 2320-5407. DOI URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.21474/IJAR01/16620
1Radiation Oncology Department, Oncology Hospital, Hassan II University Hospital, Fes, Morocco. 2Medical Physics Unit, Hassan II University Hospital, Fes, Morocco
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