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The most common metastatic sites of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) are the lung and bone after lymph nodes. A newly defined type of occult DTC is consistent with metastatic disease without an identified primary malignancy in the thyroid gland after total resection. We present a patient with multiple lung metastases of occult DTC showing mild 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake and intense radioiodine uptake without a primary lesion in the thyroid gland.
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Çermik, T.F., Ergül, N. (2019). A Patient Presented with Extensive Lung Metastases of Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma Without Any Primary Focus Detected on Total Thyroidectomy. In: Özülker, T., Adaş, M., Günay, S. (eds) Thyroid and Parathyroid Diseases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78476-2_30
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