Rare Intensely Fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose Avid Large Retropharyngeal Goiter in a Patient with Invasive Breast Carcinoma
| Autor: | Muhammad N. Siddique, Bina Kviatkovsky, Arnold Brenner, Elliot Landau |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
lcsh:Medical physics. Medical radiology. Nuclear medicine
Pathology medicine.medical_specialty endocrine system Goiter positron emission tomography endocrine system diseases lcsh:R895-920 Case Report 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Breast cancer medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Avidity Chronic thyroiditis Retropharyngeal space goiter Fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Thyroid disease medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure Positron emission tomography 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose retropharyngeal business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Clinical Imaging Science Journal of Clinical Imaging Science, Vol 6, Iss 1, Pp 13-13 (2016) |
| ISSN: | 2156-5597 2156-7514 |
| Popis: | Diffuse increased fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) avidity on positron emission tomography (PET) scans has been demonstrated in patients with chronic thyroiditis, likely secondary to increased inflammatory cell glucose uptake. A complex association has been demonstrated between breast cancer and thyroid disease, although the mechanism remains elusive. Development of chronic thyroiditis and/or goiter in breast cancer patients has been suggested to convey a more favorable prognosis. Goiter extension is almost exclusively into retrosternal space, with only a handful of cases reported with superior extension into retropharyngeal space. We present a rare case of a diffusely enlarged goiter extending superior and posterior into the retropharyngeal space with an associated intense 18F-FDG avidity standardized uptake value maximum (SUVmax) of 16.1 in a patient with invasive ductal breast cancer. To our knowledge, this represents the first published case of diffusely 18F-FDG avid goiter with retropharyngeal extension. |
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