Follicular thyroid cancer avid on C-11 Methionine PET/CT

Follicular thyroid cancer avid on C-11 Methionine PET/CT

A case of follicular thyroid cancer with intense focal Methionine uptake on 11C-Methionine PET/CT is reported here. The use of 11C-Methionine PET in differentiated thyroid cancer is currently being investigated as a surrogate tracer compared to the more widely used 18F-FDG PET. This case illustrates the potential incremental value of this modality, not only in the localizing of parathyroid aden...

Techniques Radio-guided Surgery for Non-I-avid Thyroid Cancer

Objective: In this paper we report in a larger series the use of radio-probe-guided surgery (RGS) in nonradioiodineavid, well-differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). Design: Thirty-seven patients with locoregional recurrent, nonradioiodine avid DTC were studied with Tc-sestamibi directed RGS using a handheld gamma probe as an intraoperative detector. Outcome: Twenty-three women and 14 men were fol...

Topic: SURGERY FOR THYROID CANCER Title: Radio-guided surgery for non-I-avid thyroid cancer

Outcome: Twenty-three women and 14 men were followed after RGS for 35.4 + 12.5 months (range 9-57). There were 33 papillary (one “tall” cell variant), 2 follicular, and 2 Hürthle cell cancers. In 7 patients, thyroid cancer recurred in the neck while cervical lymph node metastases were found in 31 patients (one patient had papillary cancer both in the thyroid bed and cervical lymph nodes). Sixty...

PETCT in lung cancer staging

Metastatic Follicular Thyroid Carcinoma Secreting Thyroid Hormone and Radioiodine Avid without Stimulation: A Case Report and Literature Review

Introduction. This is an extremely rare case of a patient with metastatic follicular thyroid cancer who continued to produce thyroid hormone and was iodine scan positive without stimulation after thyroidectomy and radioiodine (I-131) therapy. Patient Findings. A 76-year-old Caucasian male was diagnosed with metastatic follicular thyroid carcinoma on lung nodule biopsy. Total thyroidectomy was p...