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- Title
Incidental Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma Detected on F-18 FDG PET CT Imaging for Breast Cancer Staging: A Case Report.
- Authors
Alex Khoo Cheen Hoe; HAMZAH, Fadzilah; KHADER, Mohamed Ali Abdul
- Abstract
The detection rate of thyroid incidentalomas is increasing; in fact, as many as 2.3% of patients undergoing FDG PET-CT for other indications have been found to have thyroid incidentalomas. The risk of malignancy in these thyroid incidentalomas can be as high as 47%. The increased uptake and the focal uptake pattern of F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) in the thyroid during positron emission tomography (PET)-computed tomography (CT), and the calcification of the thyroid incidentaloma, are associated with even higher risk of malignancy. We report a case of a lady undergoing FDG PET- CT for breast cancer staging but noted to have a calcified thyroid incidentaloma, which was proven to be follicular thyroid carcinoma.
- Subjects
ADENOCARCINOMA; BREAST cancer diagnosis; THYROID gland tumors; DUCTAL carcinoma; SECONDARY primary cancer; DEOXY sugars; NEEDLE biopsy; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; POSITRON emission tomography; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
Malaysian Journal of Medical Sciences, 2014, Vol 21, Issue 5, p75
- ISSN
1394-195X
- Publication type
Article