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Clinical utility of 18F-FDG PET/CT in the follow-up of a large cohort of patients with high-risk differentiated thyroid carcinoma

ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the clinical utility of 18F-FDG PET/CT in patients with high-risk DTC. Subjects and methods Single-center retrospective study with 74 patients with high-risk differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC), classified in 4 groups. Group 1: patients with positive sTg or TgAb, subdiv...

Intrathoracic stomach mimicking bone metastasis from thyroid cancer in whole-body iodine-131 scan diagnosed by SPECT/CT

SUMMARY The whole-body iodine-131 scintigraphy is an imaging technique in monitoring patients with a history of thyroid cancer. Although the rate of false positives is negligible, it is not nonexistent. We report the case of an intervened and treated patient for thyroid cancer with good clinical and bioc...

Incidentalomas endocrinos, más que una imagen
Endocrine incidentalomas, more than an image

Endocrine incidentalomas are nodular lesions located in endocrine glands, diagnosed serendipitously by different image techniques requested for non-endocrine reasons. They can be located in many sites, but this review describes those that compromise pituitary, adrenal and thyroid gland. The main diagnost...

Características clínicas, ultrasonográficas y anatomopatológicas de pacientes operados por sospecha de malignidad tiroidea
Clinical, ultrasonographic and anatomopathological characteristics of patients operated on for suspected thyroid malignancy

Rev. cuba. endocrinol; 25 (2), 2014
Introducción: El carcinoma tiroideo se caracteriza por su lenta evolución y elevado porcentaje de curación. Objetivo: describir las características clínicas, ultrasonográficas y anatomopatológicas de los pacientes operados. Métodos: estudio descriptivo, retrospectivo. Se utilizaron para obtener e...

Fijación de radioyodo en huesos maxilares simulando metástasis en pacientes con Carcinoma Diferenciado de Tiroides (CDT): False- Positive images in patients with Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma. (DTC)

En estudios centellográficos con 131I (CCT) para seguimiento, postablación o tratamiento de pacientes portadores de carcinoma diferenciado de tiroides (CDT) se observan frecuentemente en tiempos precoces áreas de captación del radiotrazador en macizo facial. Estas áreas corresponden, generalmente, a...