Open AccessThe relationship between positron emission tomography-computed tomography imaging and histopathological features of thyroid incidentalomas detected during follow-up for primary malignancy
Author(s) -
Bala Başak Öven,
Zeynep Gamze Kılıçoğlu,
Ahmet Bılıcı,
Mehmet Tarık Tatoğlu,
Şule Canberk,
Metin Tilki,
Fügen Aker Vardar
Publication year - 2019
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/jcrt.jcrt_889_16
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , nodule (geology) , positron emission tomography , thyroid , thyroid nodules , radiology , thyroid cancer , standardized uptake value , incidentaloma , biopsy , pathological , nuclear medicine , pathology , paleontology , biology
While the rate of thyroid incidentaloma detected on positron emission tomography (PET) was reported as 4%, the malignancy rate was 14%-50%. We evaluated the thyroid nodules which were detected by PET-computerized tomography (CT) in cancer patients and analyzed the pathological results of those thyroid nodules diagnosed by fine needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) and their correlation with the maximum standardized uptake (SUV max ) value and PET imaging features.