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Published online: 2014-07-31
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Cervix carcinoma and incidental finding of medullary thyroid carcinoma by 18F-FDG PET/CT — clinical case

Borislav Chaushev, Pavel Bochev, Anelia Klisarova, Kaloyan Yordanov, Elitsa Encheva, Jivka Dancheva, Cvetelina Yordanova, Kiril Hristozov, Ivan Krasnaliev, Radoslav Radev, Rumen Nenkov
DOI: 10.5603/NMR.2014.0025
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Nucl. Med. Rev 2014;17(2):97-100.

open access

Vol 17, No 2 (2014)
Case Report
Submitted: 2014-04-09
Accepted: 2014-04-16
Published online: 2014-07-31

Abstract

Thyroid nodules are encountered in clinical practice during the diagnostic procedures or patients’ follow-up due to other diseases quite far from the thyroid gland with prevalence 4–50% in general population, depending on age, diagnostic method and race. The prevalence of thyroid nodules increases with age and their clarification should be done for their adequate treatment. An 18F-FDG PET/CT was done with a PET/CT scanner (Philips Gemini TF), consisting of dedicated lutetium orthosilicate full ring PET scanner and 16 slice CT. The PET/CT scan of the whole-body revealed on the CT portion a hypodense nodular lesion in the left lobe of the thyroid gland with increased uptake of 18F-FDG on the PET with SUVmax 10.3 and demonstrated a complete response to the induction therapy of the main oncological disease of the patient — squamous cell carcinoma. This clinical case demonstrates that whole-body 18F-FDG-PET/CT has an increasingly important role in the early evaluation of thyroid cancer as a second independent malignant localization. Focal thyroid lesion with high risk of thyroid malignancy was incidentally found on 18F-FDG PET/CT.

Abstract

Thyroid nodules are encountered in clinical practice during the diagnostic procedures or patients’ follow-up due to other diseases quite far from the thyroid gland with prevalence 4–50% in general population, depending on age, diagnostic method and race. The prevalence of thyroid nodules increases with age and their clarification should be done for their adequate treatment. An 18F-FDG PET/CT was done with a PET/CT scanner (Philips Gemini TF), consisting of dedicated lutetium orthosilicate full ring PET scanner and 16 slice CT. The PET/CT scan of the whole-body revealed on the CT portion a hypodense nodular lesion in the left lobe of the thyroid gland with increased uptake of 18F-FDG on the PET with SUVmax 10.3 and demonstrated a complete response to the induction therapy of the main oncological disease of the patient — squamous cell carcinoma. This clinical case demonstrates that whole-body 18F-FDG-PET/CT has an increasingly important role in the early evaluation of thyroid cancer as a second independent malignant localization. Focal thyroid lesion with high risk of thyroid malignancy was incidentally found on 18F-FDG PET/CT.

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Keywords

PET/CT, 18F-FDG, hypodense nodular lesion, medullary thyroid cancer

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Title

Cervix carcinoma and incidental finding of medullary thyroid carcinoma by 18F-FDG PET/CT — clinical case

Journal

Nuclear Medicine Review

Issue

Vol 17, No 2 (2014)

Article type

Case report

Pages

97-100

Published online

2014-07-31

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DOI

10.5603/NMR.2014.0025

Bibliographic record

Nucl. Med. Rev 2014;17(2):97-100.

Keywords

PET/CT
18F-FDG
hypodense nodular lesion
medullary thyroid cancer

Authors

Borislav Chaushev
Pavel Bochev
Anelia Klisarova
Kaloyan Yordanov
Elitsa Encheva
Jivka Dancheva
Cvetelina Yordanova
Kiril Hristozov
Ivan Krasnaliev
Radoslav Radev
Rumen Nenkov

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