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| Year : 2021 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 223-225 |
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Parathyroid carcinoma – A malignant cause of metabolic skeletal super scan on fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-Computed tomography
Santhosh Sampath, Godwin Jeeva
Division of PET/CT, Gemini Scans, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Santhosh Sampath
Division of PET/CT, Gemini Scans, Vadapalani, Chennai - 600 026, Tamil Nadu
India
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DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_213_20
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Excessive abnormal tracer uptake in active tracer avid organ(s) with the suppression of physiological background tracer distribution is termed as super scan. Herein, we present an 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT), where the metabolic pattern of skeletal super scan with coexistent parathyroid tumor was seen giving rise to the suspicion of primary hyperparathyroidism. It was subsequently diagnosed as a case of parathyroid carcinoma. Very high levels of serum parathormone in parathyroid carcinoma lead to accelerated bone turn over resulting in metabolic skeletal superscan in FDG-PET/CT which is seldom observed in parathyroid adenoma.
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