Milliette Alvarado, Margarita Ramirez, Liurka Lopez, Maria J Marcos-Martinez, Fanor M Saavedra, Juan C Negron-Rivei, Marielba Agosto, Meliza Martinez, Rafael Gonzalez, Myriam Allende-Vigo
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Follicular thyroid carcinoma is the second most common type of thyroid cancer, and its incidence has increased dramatically in recent years. Although it typically presents as a thyroid nodule, it can spread to distant sites via hematogenous dissemination. Spinal cord compression complicating thyroid carcinoma is rare with only few cases reported in the literature. This case illustrates a minimally invasive follicular carcinoma that showed such an aggressive behavior, and thus the importance of considering metastatic thyroid carcinoma in the differential diagnosis of chronic back pain, which may possibly progress to spinal cord compression carrying severe morbidity.
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