Papillary thyroid carcinoma presenting as paraneoplastic acral vascular syndrome in a 37-year-old female: A case report
Muhammad Bilal Jamshaid, Afia Aziz, Huma Munir, Sarah Obiedat, Samir Alhyassat, Adel AlBozom, Basem Awadh, Samar AlEmadi · 2026
Read Papillary thyroid carcinoma presenting as paraneoplastic acral vascular syndrome in a 37-year-old female: A case report by Muhammad Bilal Jamshaid, Afia Aziz, Huma Munir, Sarah Obiedat, Samir Alhyassat, Adel AlBozom, Basem Awadh, Samar AlEmadi (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/PMC13451944.txt.
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Muhammad Bilal Jamshaid and co-authors describe in 2026 a thyroid cancer that announced itself through starving fingers and toes. Their patient, a woman aged 37, had four years of color swings in her middle fingers and outer toes, a Raynaud-like pattern. Her feet were cold, toe ulcers had formed, and foot pulses ran weak.
Drug after drug failed, and two right toes turned gangrenous. A full-body scan found no vessel swelling yet lit up a small lump in her right thyroid. A needle test pointed to papillary thyroid cancer, and removing the gland settled the vessel syndrome fully, a first for this cancer kind. The case links stubborn limb vessel trouble to hidden tumors.
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| CREATOR | Muhammad Bilal Jamshaid, Afia Aziz, Huma Munir, Sarah Obiedat, Samir Alhyassat, Adel AlBozom, Basem Awadh, Samar AlEmadi |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 15454 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |