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ArticleJournal of surgical case reports2017

Follicular thyroid carcinoma presenting with pathological fracture of the humerus at initial diagnosis.

Wanding Yang, WaiSum Cho, Sudip Das, Peter Conboy

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Article in Journal of surgical case reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
0.4field-weighted citation impact, top 38% of its field
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2 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Wanding YangDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Infirmary Square, LE1 5WW, UK dingyang@doctors.org.uk.
WaiSum ChoDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Infirmary Square, LE1 5WW, UK.
Sudip DasDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Infirmary Square, LE1 5WW, UK.
Peter ConboyDepartment of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Leicester Royal Infirmary, Infirmary Square, LE1 5WW, UK.
Leicester Royal Infirmary · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Differentiated carcinomas of the thyroid gland usually have a good prognosis with prognosis often discussed in terms of 20 year survival. Nevertheless its 10-year-survival rate decreases when accompanied by distant metastasis. Follicular thyroid cancer (FTC) is the second most common thyroid cancer and usually presents with a solitary thyroid nodule with or without cervical lymphadenopathy. Distance metastasis at initial diagnosis is seldom observed with incidence range from 1 to 9%. In cases of bone metastasis, the incidence is only 2-3% and weight-bearing skeleton is preferentially affected. In our case, we present a patient with FTC that metastasized to the upper limb causing severe pain and pathological fracture at the initial presentation.

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PMID28108635
PMCPMC5260851
OpenAlexW2573496955

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