TY - JOUR
T1 - Incidental hypermetabolic PET positive lesions in thyroid and pituitary glands in a patient with lung cancer
T2 - A case of two uncommon findings in a single patient
AU - Nayak, Pratima
AU - Soe, Kyaw
AU - Natwa, Mona
AU - Sachak, Taha
AU - Jin, Ming
AU - Lehman, Norman L.
AU - Nabhan, Fadi
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license.
PY - 2016/12/1
Y1 - 2016/12/1
N2 - A 60-year-old man who was recently diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma underwent 18F-FDG positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG PET/CT) scan for staging. The FDG PET/CT scan showed incidental hypermetabolic uptake in the pituitary gland and focal hypermetabolic activity in the left thyroid lobe. Histopathologic evaluation revealed these to be a non-functioning pituitary adenoma and papillary thyroid cancer, respectively. Incidental hypermetabolic uptake in the pituitary and thyroid glands on FDG PET/CT scan are uncommon. It is important to determine their etiologies as this may lead in some cases to incorrect staging of the primary cancer and, therefore, inappropriate clinical management. In this case report we will discuss the clinical presentation and the imaging findings of this patient and review the related literature.
AB - A 60-year-old man who was recently diagnosed with lung adenocarcinoma underwent 18F-FDG positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG PET/CT) scan for staging. The FDG PET/CT scan showed incidental hypermetabolic uptake in the pituitary gland and focal hypermetabolic activity in the left thyroid lobe. Histopathologic evaluation revealed these to be a non-functioning pituitary adenoma and papillary thyroid cancer, respectively. Incidental hypermetabolic uptake in the pituitary and thyroid glands on FDG PET/CT scan are uncommon. It is important to determine their etiologies as this may lead in some cases to incorrect staging of the primary cancer and, therefore, inappropriate clinical management. In this case report we will discuss the clinical presentation and the imaging findings of this patient and review the related literature.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jecr.2016.06.001
DO - 10.1016/j.jecr.2016.06.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84976328946
SN - 2214-6245
VL - 2
SP - 10
EP - 14
JO - Journal of Clinical and Translational Endocrinology: Case Reports
JF - Journal of Clinical and Translational Endocrinology: Case Reports
ER -