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Positron emission tomography detected thyroid incidentaloma

We describe the case of a 48-year-old woman who presented with a thyroid lesion incidentally detected on positron emission tomography/computed tomography for a suspicious lung lesion. Subsequent clinical examination and investigations revealed a 3cm nodule in the left lower pole of the thyroid. Fine...

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Autores principales: Goddard, J, Gaunt, A, Markham, DH
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal College of Surgeons 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3964670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23317708
http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/003588413X13511609956732
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description We describe the case of a 48-year-old woman who presented with a thyroid lesion incidentally detected on positron emission tomography/computed tomography for a suspicious lung lesion. Subsequent clinical examination and investigations revealed a 3cm nodule in the left lower pole of the thyroid. Fine needle aspiration was indeterminate for malignancy. A left hemithyroidectomy was performed and histology confirmed a benign thyroid adenoma with an incidental micropapillary carcinoma. The literature regarding the best management for thyroid incidentalomas remains uncertain and, as such, each patient must be managed on an individual basis.
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spelling pubmed-39646702014-07-17 Positron emission tomography detected thyroid incidentaloma Goddard, J Gaunt, A Markham, DH Ann R Coll Surg Engl Online Case Report We describe the case of a 48-year-old woman who presented with a thyroid lesion incidentally detected on positron emission tomography/computed tomography for a suspicious lung lesion. Subsequent clinical examination and investigations revealed a 3cm nodule in the left lower pole of the thyroid. Fine needle aspiration was indeterminate for malignancy. A left hemithyroidectomy was performed and histology confirmed a benign thyroid adenoma with an incidental micropapillary carcinoma. The literature regarding the best management for thyroid incidentalomas remains uncertain and, as such, each patient must be managed on an individual basis. Royal College of Surgeons 2013-01 2013-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3964670/ /pubmed/23317708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/003588413X13511609956732 Text en Copyright © 2013 Royal College of Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full_unstemmed Positron emission tomography detected thyroid incidentaloma
title_short Positron emission tomography detected thyroid incidentaloma
title_sort positron emission tomography detected thyroid incidentaloma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3964670/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23317708
http://dx.doi.org/10.1308/003588413X13511609956732
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