A case of a man 53 years old with a solitary plasmocytoma of the thyroid is described. The nodule was 5 x 7 cm in size, and did not show uptake of I131. No sistemic clinical and laboratory signes were present. The patient was treated with total thyroidectomy and postoperative telecobaltotherapy. The case is the seven described in the medical literature.
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