Brain Metastasis of Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma Without Macroscopic Calcification Detected First on 68Ga-Dotatate and Then on 18F-Fluoride PET/CT.

We report a case of a medullary thyroid carcinoma noncalcified brain metastasis characterized on Ga-dotatate PET/CT but not on an F-fluoride PET/CT performed 1 month later. Subsequent F-fluoride PET/CT studies performed 7 and 19 months after the Ga-dotatate PET/CT study demonstrated focal uptake in the metastasis. The CT images of the last PET/CT study also depicted a small focus of calcification beginning in the metastatic site.

• Publication year

  2018

• Venue

  Clinical Nuclear Medicine

• Publication date

  2018-08-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002163PMID 29894334
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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