eRAM
encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine
| Disease | medullary thyroid carcinoma |
| Comorbidity | C0153677|mediastinal metastasis |
| Sentences | 1 |
| PubMedID- 22091276 | C cells originate from neural crest in embryonic phase and similar to other neuroendocrine tumors contain somatostatin receptors.616 american thyroid association does not recommend somatostatin receptor imaging for the initial evaluation of metastases.17 here we report a case of medullary thyroid cancer with mediastinal metastasis that octreotide scintigraphy could help us in localizing the site of calcitonin secretion, whereas other imaging modalities could not localize the metastatic lesion. |
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