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In this report, a 42-year-old woman with follicular thyroid cancer that had had a total thyroidectomy and radioiodine ablation nine years ago was presented with a painful right thigh mass and negative PET\/CT scan. The patient had also lung metastases during the follow-up period which were treated with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy. An MRI scan of the right thigh showed a deep-seated lobulated mass with cystic regions, bleeding elements and strong heterogeneous post contrast administration enhancement. Due to the similarities in clinical manifestations and imaging features between soft tissue tumors and skeletal muscle metastases, the case was initially misdiagnosed in favor of synovial sarcoma. Histopathological, immunohistochemistry and molecular analysis of the soft tissue mass confirmed to be a thyroid metastasis and, as a result, a final diagnosis of skeletal muscle metastasis was provided. 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