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...

Background: Recombinant human TSH (rhTSH) has become the modality of choice for radioiodine remnant ablation of residual thyroid cancer tissue in low-risk patients.Methods: The FACIT-F was administered from the early postoperative period to 9 months. Socio-demographic parameters, anxiety and depression scales were also evaluated. At 24 h, 48 h and d6 post-therapy, dose rate were measured. Using a simplified model, radiation exposure to public was estimat...

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...