{"title":"Unusual Soft Tissue and Muscle Metastases in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: Insights from <sup>131</sup>I Scintigraphy and <sup>18</sup>F-FDG PET/CT.","authors":"Mohd Fazrin Mohd Rohani, Siti Zarina Amir Hassan","doi":"10.4274/mirt.galenos.2025.77698","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Distant metastases from well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma typically involve the lungs and bones. We report a rare case of metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma presenting as soft tissue lesion, detected by Iodine-131 whole-body scintigraphy in a 44-year-old asymptomatic male. The patient had previously undergone a total thyroidectomy and bilateral modified radical neck dissection, receiving radioiodine for pT3bN1bMx multifocal classical papillary thyroid carcinoma. Further evaluation with <sup>18</sup>F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography revealed additional sites of soft tissue and muscle metastasis, along with extensive nodal, lung, and skeletal involvement. These findings indicated advanced disease with a poor prognosis, necessitating a change in the treatment plan.</p>","PeriodicalId":44681,"journal":{"name":"Molecular Imaging and Radionuclide Therapy","volume":" ","pages":"47-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2026-02-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12869104/pdf/","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Molecular Imaging and Radionuclide Therapy","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.4274/mirt.galenos.2025.77698","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"2025/11/11 0:00:00","PubModel":"Epub","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"RADIOLOGY, NUCLEAR MEDICINE & MEDICAL IMAGING","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Distant metastases from well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma typically involve the lungs and bones. We report a rare case of metastatic papillary thyroid carcinoma presenting as soft tissue lesion, detected by Iodine-131 whole-body scintigraphy in a 44-year-old asymptomatic male. The patient had previously undergone a total thyroidectomy and bilateral modified radical neck dissection, receiving radioiodine for pT3bN1bMx multifocal classical papillary thyroid carcinoma. Further evaluation with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography revealed additional sites of soft tissue and muscle metastasis, along with extensive nodal, lung, and skeletal involvement. These findings indicated advanced disease with a poor prognosis, necessitating a change in the treatment plan.
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Molecular Imaging and Radionuclide Therapy (Mol Imaging Radionucl Ther, MIRT) is publishes original research articles, invited reviews, editorials, short communications, letters, consensus statements, guidelines and case reports with a literature review on the topic, in the field of molecular imaging, multimodality imaging, nuclear medicine, radionuclide therapy, radiopharmacy, medical physics, dosimetry and radiobiology.
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