Table 1.
Reference | Age/gender | Clinical presentation | Location/side & size | Interval from Initial diagnosis of thyroid cancer/surgery (years) | Other sites of metastases | Follow up | |
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1. | Tur et al. (1994) [4] | 72/F | Incidental | Right 3 kidney, 3 cm | Liver – caudate lobe | No recurrence or new complaints 7 months s/p surgery | |
2. | Graham et al. (1995) [5] | 75/M | Hematuria | Left No Interval kidney, 8.5 cm | None | No recurrence or new complaints 36 months s/p surgery | |
3. | Gamboa-Dominguez et al. (1999) [6] | 50/F | Hematuria, Left flank pain | Left Kidney, 8 cm | No interval | Two cerebral metastases | Died in 11 months due to brain metastasis |
4. | Smallridge et al. (2001) [7] | 61/F | Upper back mass | Left Kidney, 3 cm | 1/4 | Left shoulder/scapula | No recurrence 2 years post treatment |
5. | Liou et al. (2005) [8] | 50/F | Low back pain and palpable thyroid nodule | Right Kidney, 1.9 cm | No interval | Lung, bones | No follow up available |
6. | Varinot et al. (2014) [9] | 77/M | Hematuria | Right kidney, 4.5 cm | 6 | Bones, brain | No follow up available |
7. | Present case (2015) | 70/F | Incidental | Bilateral (left 6.4 cm right 3.6 cm) | Thyroid cancer was found later than its metastasis | Bones, lungs and liver | Patient is under treatment |
All the patients were ≥50 years of age, out of total FVPTC cases 5 were female (71.4%), out of 7 FVPTC cases 3 metastasized to right and 3 to the left kidneys. Only the present case metastasized to both kidneys.