Endocrine Abstracts

Background : Parathyroid tumors are considered to be parathyroid neuroendocrine neoplasia (NEN), according to the recent IARC-WHO classification updates. Primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT) develops commonly in patients with multiple neuroendocrine neoplasia syndromes (MEN), when it occurs along with pituitary, gastro-entero-pancreatic or other NENs. The latter requires total-body 68Ga-DOTA-peptides PET/CT. Its major advantage is to detect additional tumors with other localizat...