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ArticleJCEM case reports2024

Multidisciplinary Management of Skull Metastatic Follicular Thyroid Cancer in a Resource-Limited Setting.

Yisihak Suga, Mulualem Wondafrash, Metasebia Worku Abebe, Helagenet Eshetu

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Yisihak SugaDepartment of Surgery, Endocrine and Breast Surgery Subunit, Saint Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC), PO Box 1271, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5040-8288
Mulualem WondafrashDepartment of Neurosurgery, Saint Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC), PO Box 1271, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Metasebia Worku AbebeDepartment of Surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive subunit, Saint Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC), PO Box 1271, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Helagenet EshetuDepartment of Surgery, Saint Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College (SPHMMC), PO Box 1271, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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Abstract

A 60-year-old woman presented to the Department of Surgery with an anterior neck mass and a mass on her left forehead. She was diagnosed with follicular thyroid cancer with metastasis to the skull, a rare presentation of follicular thyroid cancer that is associated with a poor prognosis. A multidisciplinary team evaluated the patient and devised a 3-staged surgical management plan: total thyroidectomy with central lymph node dissection, cranial metastasectomy, and cranioplasty with autologous split rib graft. This case illustrates how innovative multidisciplinary surgical management can be applied in a low-resource setting involving 3 surgical sub-specialties for the best possible outcome in a patient with metastatic follicular thyroid cancer.

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follicular cancerlimited resourcemultidisciplinaryskull metastasis

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PMCPMC11128941

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