Endocrine Abstracts

Purpose: Persistence of well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma most commonly involves cervical lymph nodes. The purposes of the study were to evaluate the ability of FDG-PET/CT imaging to localize residual disease in initial stage M0 thyroid carcinoma thyroid cancer patients and to compare FDG-PET/CT to neck US.Methods: FDG-PET/CT and neck US results of 93 patients were retrospectively analysed. All FDG-PET/CT were performed during thyrotropin stimulation...

Purpose: The widespread use of high resolution cross-sectional imaging such as computer tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for the investigation of the abdomen is associated with an increasing detection of incidental adrenal masses. 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) has proved to be an efficient tool in the diagnosis and follow-up of malignancies. We evaluated the ability of FDG-PET to distinguish benign from malignant adrenal mass...