Acta Med. 2011, 54: 87-89

https://doi.org/10.14712/18059694.2016.26

A Delayed Fatal Metastatic Hürthle Cell Carcinoma

S. Oaleed Noordallya, Schoeb Sohawonb, Ruth Duttmannc, Linda Spinatod, Pierre Kleynene, Georges Verougstraeted

aCHU Brugmann, Free University of Brussels, Department of Critical Care Medicine, Brussels, Belgium
bCHU Brugmann, Free University of Brussels, Department of Surgery, Erasme Hospital, Brussels, Belgium
cCHU Brugmann, Free University of Brussels, Department of Pathology, Brussels, Belgium
dCHU Brugmann, Free University of Brussels, Department of Otolaryngology and Cervico-Facial Surgery, Brussels, Belgium
eCHU Brugmann, Free University of Brussels, Department of Endocrinology, Brussels, Belgium

Received September 11, 2010
Accepted February 11, 2011

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