Open AccessRare thyroid cartilage metastases detected on 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography scan
Author(s) -
Nitin Gupta,
Ritu Verma,
Ethel Shangne Belho
Publication year - 2021
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/ijnm.ijnm_143_20
Subject(s) - medicine , positron emission tomography , positron emission , nuclear medicine , positron emission tomography computed tomography , computed tomography , radiology , tomography , fluorodeoxyglucose , computed tomography laser mammography , metastasis , thyroid , preclinical imaging , cancer , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , in vivo
Metastatic lesions to thyroid cartilage are very rare and can be often missed on conventional imaging. Anatomical and functional fused positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging has higher sensitivity as compared to conventional CT imaging and can thus identify such atypical sites of metastasis. Here, we present four cases of thyroid cartilage metastases detected on 18 fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT scan from carcinoma lung, breast, stomach and urinary bladder.