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Rare Late Mandibular Metastasis in Follicular Variant of Papillary Carcinoma Thyroid: ‘Resurgence of the Sleeping Tumour’ Kanchan P Dholam Gurkaran Preet Singh Sandeep V GuravBharat Bharat Rekhi<p>Cancer of the thyroid gland is the most common endocrine malignancy constituting for less than 1% of all reported human cancers 1. The propensity of occurrence of thyroid carcinomas is two to four times more in females as compared to males with a median age at diagnosis being 45–50 years [1,2]. Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common histological type of thyroid cancer and accounts for more than 80 % of thyroid malignancies. Classical PTC (cPTC) is the most common (80%) sub-type of papillary thyroid carcinoma followed by follicular variant (FVPTC) which is found in 9–22.5% of patients [3].&nbsp;</p> Archives of Otolaryngology and Rhinology - Peertechz Publications 2017-01-04 Case Report https://doi.org/10.17352/2455-1759.000032 en Copyright © Kanchan P Dholam et al.