Dual Pathologies of Parathyroid Adenoma and Papillary Thyroid Cancer on Fluorocholine and Fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT

N T K Thanseer; Sanjay Kumar Bhadada; Ashwani Sood; Ashwin Singh Parihar; Divya Dahiya; Priyanka Singh; Rajender Kumar Basher; Ashim Das; Bhagwant R Mittal

doi:10.1007/s13139-017-0488-3

Dual Pathologies of Parathyroid Adenoma and Papillary Thyroid Cancer on Fluorocholine and Fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT

Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2018 Apr;52(2):154-158. doi: 10.1007/s13139-017-0488-3. Epub 2017 Jul 25.

Authors

N T K Thanseer¹, Sanjay Kumar Bhadada², Ashwani Sood¹, Ashwin Singh Parihar¹, Divya Dahiya³, Priyanka Singh², Rajender Kumar Basher¹, Ashim Das⁴, Bhagwant R Mittal¹

Affiliations

¹ 1Department of Nuclear Medicine, PGIMER, Sector-12, Chandigarh, 160012 India.
² 2Department of Endocrinology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, 160012 India.
³ 3Department of General Surgery, PGIMER, Chandigarh, 160012 India.
⁴ 4Department of Histopathology, PGIMER, Chandigarh, 160012 India.

Abstract

¹⁸F-Fluorocholine (FCH) PET/CT is evolving as a functional imaging modality for the preoperative imaging of abnormal parathyroid tissue(s) helping to localize eutopic and ectopic parathyroid tissue and limit the extent of surgery. FCH PET/CT may show incidental uptake in various thyroid lesions necessitating further evaluation, whereas the role of ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT in the detection of incidental thyroid nodules is well documented. The case of a middle-aged woman with dual pathology of parathyroid adenoma and papillary thyroid cancer detected on FCH and FDG PET/CT is presented.

Keywords: 18F-Fluorocholine; 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose; PET/CT; Papillary thyroid carcinoma; Parathyroid adenoma.

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Case Reports