A Thyroid Incidentaloma Detected by 18F-choline PET/CT

Overview

Journal Clin Nucl Med

Specialty Nuclear Medicine

Date 2013 Apr 13

PMID 23579984

Citations 9

Authors

Giorgio Treglia

Elisabetta Giovannini

Paoletta Mirk

Davide Di Franco

Luigi Oragano

Francesco Bertagna

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Abstract

We report a case of thyroid incidentaloma detected by 18F-choline PET/CT. A 66-year-old male patient with a history of prostate cancer underwent a 18F-choline PET/CT for restaging. PET/CT revealed a focal area of increased 18F-choline uptake corresponding to a hypodense nodule in the right lobe of the thyroid. Based on PET/CT findings, the patient underwent a ultrasonography guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy which demonstrated the presence of a benign thyroid nodule.

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