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Autor: Onur Erdem, Şahin, Lebriz, Uslu-Beşli, Sertaç, Asa, Sait, Sağer, Kerim, Sönmezoğlu
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Hellenic journal of nuclear medicine. 23(3)
ISSN: 1790-5427
Popis: Medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) is an aggressive form of thyroid malignancy with local metastasis in 30%-50% of the cases and distant metastasis predominantly to lung, liver and skeleton in 13%-15% of patients. Identification of the lesion using imaging modalities is of crucial importance for disease management in the recurrent or metastatic MTC. In this study, we aimed to determine the efficacy of fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (The records of MTC patients, who were treated and followed-up in our department between the years 2005 and 2018 were retrospectively analyzed. Seventy-three patients with MTC, who underwent eitherThe overall sensitivity ofBoth
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