Thyroid incidentalomas on 18FDG-PET/CT: a metabolico-pathological correlation
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Thyroid incidentalomas on 18FDG-PET/CT: a metabolico-pathological correlation
BACKGROUND Thyroid incidentaloma is defined as an unsuspected thyroid lesion found on imaging study or while performing a surgery non-related to the thyroid gland. Most recent scientific literature tends to demonstrate a detection rate of 0.1-4.3% for incidental findings of thyroid focal uptake identified by 18F-fluorodeoxyglugose Positron Emission Tomography with computed tomography (18FDG-PET...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1916-0216
DOI: 10.1186/s40463-017-0200-8