fa Metastatic follicular carcinoma of thyroid in maxilla پاتولوزی دهان، فک و صورت Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology پژوهشي Research Metastasis to the oral region is very rare and accounts for less than 1% of oral malignant tumors. Breast, lung, kidney, adrenal, gastro intestinal tract and prostates are most common primary tumors from which metastasis to oral region occur frequently. Metastasis from thyroid gland is extremely rare to oral region. We present an unusual case of metastatic follicular carcinoma of thyroid in maxilla. The significance of this report is that the secondary lesion was the only symptom of the primary tumor and helped us in diagnosis and treatment of disease.<hr><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left direction: ltr unicode-bidi: embed"><b>Source: </b>Dental Research Journal </p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left direction: ltr unicode-bidi: embed"><a href="http://drj.mui.ac.ir/index.php/drj/article/view/1532" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">Full Text</font></a></p> Follicular carcinoma, maxilla, metastatic tumor, thyroid gland 0 0 http://idai.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-32-3415&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 Caliaperoumal Santhosh Kumar sanjosh80@gmail.com 100319475328460015673 100319475328460015673 Yes Departments of Oral Pathology Devakumari Shanmugam 100319475328460015674 100319475328460015674 No Department of Dentistry, Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Kathirkamam Ramesh Venkatapathy 100319475328460015675 100319475328460015675 No Department of Oral Pathology, Mahatma Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Dental Sciences, Pondicherry, Meer Ahmed Ibrahim Munshi 100319475328460015676 100319475328460015676 No Oral Surgery, Sri Ramakrishna Dental College and Hospital, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India