Introduction: A particularly challenging case of concurrent acromegaly and follicular thyroid carcinoma in a patient of the Clinic of Endocrinology, UJCM in Krakow is discussed. Case description: A 59-year-old male with post total thyroidectomy performed in 2005 and histopathologically confirmed metastases of the follicular thyroid carcinoma to the lungs was admitted to the Clinic in April 2006 for complementary 131I treatment. Acromegaly was treated in 1996 by trans-sphenoidal surgery. In December 2005 a relapse of pituitary adenoma was shown by MRI, which correlated with increased levels of hGH and IGF-1. Biochemical control of acromegaly was achieved with Sandostatin LAR. Pre-therapeutic whole-body scintigraphy (WBS) revealed numerous co...