Utility of (18)F-choline photon emission tomography/computed tomography in the diagnosis of parathyroid adenoma

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...

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Autores principales: Damle, Nishikant Avinash, Tripathi, Madhavi, Behera, Abhishek, Aggarwal, Sameer, Bal, Chandrasekhar, Aggarwal, Shipra, Aggarwal, Vivek, Kandasamy, Devasenathipathi, Taywade, Sameer
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4918486/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27385893
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.181857
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Sumario: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.

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