Open AccessUtility of 18F-choline photon emission tomography/computed tomography in the diagnosis of parathyroid adenoma
Author(s) -
Nishikant Damle,
Madhavi Tripathi,
Abhishek Behera,
Sameer Aggarwal,
Chandrasekhar Bal,
Aggarwal Sk,
Vivek Aggarwal,
D Kandasamy,
Sameer Taywade
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
indian journal of nuclear medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 0972-3919
pISSN - 0974-0244
DOI - 10.4103/0972-3919.181857
Subject(s) - medicine , emission computed tomography , histopathology , parathyroid adenoma , single photon emission computed tomography , nuclear medicine , parathyroid hormone , radiology , tomography , parathyroid neoplasm , computed tomography , adenoma , positron emission tomography , pathology , calcium
Recently, the role of (18)F-choline in the detection of parathyroid adenomas has been reported. At our institution, we are currently studying the role of this tracer in comparison to the standard methoxy-isobutyl-isonitrile.(MIBI) scan with single photon emission tomography/computed tomography. Our initial results show that (18)F-choline is at least as good as 99mTc-MIBI scan. We present here a representative case of a 45-year-old woman with multiple skeletal lytic lesions and a high parathyroid hormone.(PTH) who underwent both these imaging techniques with concordant results, further confirmed by histopathology and postoperative fall in serum PTH levels.