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Late recurrence of a papillary thyroid carcinoma 37 years after hemithyroidectomy: Solitary, left cervical lymph node metastasis evident on fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography images revealing nodular uptake

In patients with well-differentiated papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), late recurrence is very rare. It is unusual that (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) shows hypermetabolic lesions in patients with well-differentiated PTC metastases. We demonstrate...

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Autores principales: Kunogi, Hiroaki, Naoi, Yutaka, Matsumoto, Toshiharu, Ozaki, Yutaka
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7478299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32939207
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_72_19
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author Kunogi, Hiroaki
Naoi, Yutaka
Matsumoto, Toshiharu
Ozaki, Yutaka
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Naoi, Yutaka
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Ozaki, Yutaka
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description In patients with well-differentiated papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), late recurrence is very rare. It is unusual that (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) shows hypermetabolic lesions in patients with well-differentiated PTC metastases. We demonstrate an exceptional case exhibiting a first relapse 37 years after hemithyroidectomy to treat PTC. Recurrent metastasis of a PTC should be considered as a differential diagnosis even if the elapsed time from the initial treatment is great. A left cervical lymphadenopathy, which exceptionally exhibited a hypermetabolic lesion on PET/CT, should be considered a metastatically well-differentiated PTC.
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spelling pubmed-74782992020-09-15 Late recurrence of a papillary thyroid carcinoma 37 years after hemithyroidectomy: Solitary, left cervical lymph node metastasis evident on fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography images revealing nodular uptake Kunogi, Hiroaki Naoi, Yutaka Matsumoto, Toshiharu Ozaki, Yutaka World J Nucl Med Case Report In patients with well-differentiated papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), late recurrence is very rare. It is unusual that (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) shows hypermetabolic lesions in patients with well-differentiated PTC metastases. We demonstrate an exceptional case exhibiting a first relapse 37 years after hemithyroidectomy to treat PTC. Recurrent metastasis of a PTC should be considered as a differential diagnosis even if the elapsed time from the initial treatment is great. A left cervical lymphadenopathy, which exceptionally exhibited a hypermetabolic lesion on PET/CT, should be considered a metastatically well-differentiated PTC. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-01-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7478299/ /pubmed/32939207 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_72_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 World Journal of Nuclear Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Kunogi, Hiroaki
Naoi, Yutaka
Matsumoto, Toshiharu
Ozaki, Yutaka
Late recurrence of a papillary thyroid carcinoma 37 years after hemithyroidectomy: Solitary, left cervical lymph node metastasis evident on fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography images revealing nodular uptake
title Late recurrence of a papillary thyroid carcinoma 37 years after hemithyroidectomy: Solitary, left cervical lymph node metastasis evident on fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography images revealing nodular uptake
title_full Late recurrence of a papillary thyroid carcinoma 37 years after hemithyroidectomy: Solitary, left cervical lymph node metastasis evident on fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography images revealing nodular uptake
title_fullStr Late recurrence of a papillary thyroid carcinoma 37 years after hemithyroidectomy: Solitary, left cervical lymph node metastasis evident on fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography images revealing nodular uptake
title_full_unstemmed Late recurrence of a papillary thyroid carcinoma 37 years after hemithyroidectomy: Solitary, left cervical lymph node metastasis evident on fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography images revealing nodular uptake
title_short Late recurrence of a papillary thyroid carcinoma 37 years after hemithyroidectomy: Solitary, left cervical lymph node metastasis evident on fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography images revealing nodular uptake
title_sort late recurrence of a papillary thyroid carcinoma 37 years after hemithyroidectomy: solitary, left cervical lymph node metastasis evident on fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography images revealing nodular uptake
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7478299/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32939207
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_72_19
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