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| Year : 2016 | Volume
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| Issue : 3 | Page : 207-209 |
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Utility of 18F-choline photon emission tomography/computed tomography in the diagnosis of parathyroid adenoma
Nishikant Avinash Damle1, Madhavi Tripathi1, Abhishek Behera1, Sameer Aggarwal2, Chandrasekhar Bal1, Shipra Aggarwal3, Vivek Aggarwal4, Devasenathipathi Kandasamy5, Sameer Taywade1
1 Department of Nuclear Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
2 Department of Endocrinology, PGIMS, Rohtak, Haryana, India
3 Department of Pathology, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
4 Department of Surgery, B.L. Kapoor Hospital, New Delhi, India
5 Department of Radiodiagnosis, AIIMS, New Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
Nishikant Avinash Damle
Department of Nuclear Medicine, AIIMS, New Delhi
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.181857
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Recently, the role of 18F-choline in the detection of parathyroid adenomas has been reported. At our institution, we are currently studying the role of this tracer in comparison to the standard methoxy-isobutyl-isonitrile.(MIBI) scan with single photon emission tomography/computed tomography. Our initial results show that 18F-choline is at least as good as 99mTc-MIBI scan. We present here a representative case of a 45-year-old woman with multiple skeletal lytic lesions and a high parathyroid hormone.(PTH) who underwent both these imaging techniques with concordant results, further confirmed by histopathology and postoperative fall in serum PTH levels. |
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