Thyroid Incidentaloma on 18F-fluorocholine PET/CT and 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT Revealing a Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma

Clin Nucl Med. 2019 Aug;44(8):663-665. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002559.

Abstract

A 66-year-old man with prostate cancer underwent F-fluorocholine PET/CT and thereafter Ga-labeled prostate-specific membrane antigen PET/CT to explore a rising prostate-specific antigen level. Both PET/CT studies showed a thyroid incidentaloma of the right lobe. Neck ultrasound confirmed the presence of a 16-mm right thyroid nodule. The serum calcitonin level was moderately increased at 25 ng/mL (<10). Cytology was non-diagnostic (Bethesda I). A right lobectomy was performed and pathology revealed a 15-mm medullary thyroid cancer. Two months after surgery, the calcitonin level returned to normal at 3.3 ng/mL.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Carcinoma, Neuroendocrine / diagnostic imaging*
  • Choline / analogs & derivatives
  • Edetic Acid / analogs & derivatives
  • Gallium Isotopes
  • Gallium Radioisotopes
  • Humans
  • Incidental Findings
  • Male
  • Oligopeptides
  • Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography*
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Thyroid Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*

Substances

  • Gallium Isotopes
  • Gallium Radioisotopes
  • Oligopeptides
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • gallium 68 PSMA-11
  • fluorocholine
  • Edetic Acid
  • Choline

Supplementary concepts

  • Thyroid cancer, medullary