An unusual adrenal metastasis secondary to Hürthle cell carcinoma of the thyroid

Clin Nucl Med. 1996 Apr;21(4):312-5. doi: 10.1097/00003072-199604000-00011.

Abstract

A 66-year-old woman with Hürthle cell thyroid carcinoma associated with a right adrenal gland metastasis suspected on a postradioiodine therapy scan, is reported. Histology specimens confirmed the suspicion. Adrenal metastases have never been reported previously in this kind of tumor. On radionuclide imaging, there was marked I-131 uptake in the tumor remnant and its metastases, and the tumor spread through both lymphatic and hematogenous routes, as shown by lymph node, bone, and lung metastases.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma / diagnostic imaging*
  • Adenocarcinoma / secondary*
  • Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Aged
  • Bone Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Bone Neoplasms / secondary
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Iodine Radioisotopes
  • Lymphatic Metastasis
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Thyroid Neoplasms / pathology*

Substances

  • Iodine Radioisotopes