Rare thyroid Cartilage Metastases Detected on (18)F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Scan

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 s...

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Autores principales: Gupta, Nitin, Verma, Ritu, Belho, Ethel Shangne
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2021
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Case Series
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8130698/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34040294
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_143_20
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Sumario: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.

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