Open AccessFocal thyroid incidentaloma on whole body fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in known cancer patients: A case-based discussion with a series of three examples
Author(s) -
Mangala Targe,
Sandip Basu
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.154029
Subject(s) - incidentaloma , medicine , positron emission tomography , malignancy , radiology , thyroid cancer , fluorodeoxyglucose , computed tomography , positron emission tomography computed tomography , nuclear medicine , positron emission , thyroid , pathology
The importance, imaging characteristics and outcome of focal thyroid incidentaloma on fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT) have been illustrated in this report. This is drawn from a series of three case examples of proven malignancy at different locations, with three different thyroid cytopathological diagnoses. Subsequently, a case-based discussion on present consensus of the management of this entity has been undertaken including certain specific aspects of PET-CT interpretation and its role in this setting