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. 2014 Jul 10;48(3):228–234. doi: 10.2478/raon-2013-0075

TABLE 1.

Patients with incidentaloma in the head or in the neck on FCH PET/CT performed for prostate cancer staging or restaging benign tumours

No. Age Prostate cancer setting for FCH PET/CT Incidental FCH uptake in head and neck region Diagnostic modality(ies) for characterisation
1. 78 Biochemical recurrence under HT Pituitary MRI: Macroadenoma of pituitary gland
2. 64 Biochemical recurrence after HT Pituitary MRI: Residual pituitary adenoma in the right side of sella turcica
3. 81 Biochemical recurrence after prostatectomy, under HT Pituitary Post-surgical histology: non-functioning pituitary adenoma
4. 72 Initial staging Frontal lobe MRI: Meningioma in the anterior cranial fossa
5. 70 Biochemical recurrence, under HT Between cerebellum and medulla MRI: Meningioma at the level of foramen magnum on the right side
6. 56 Initial staging Behind the left thyroid lobe Serum PTH: 160 ng/L, ultrasonography and 99mTc-SestaMIBI/123I scintigraphy: recurrent parathyroid adenoma at the same location
7. 75 Biochemical recurrence after high intensity focused ultrasound, no HT Behind the left thyroid lobe Serum PTH: 134 ng/L, calcemia: 2.6 mmol/L, normal serum calcidiol
8. 52 Biochemical recurrence after prostatectomy, under HT Left thyroid lobe Ultrasonography: multinodular thyroid gland. Cytology of the target nodule: thyroid adenoma

HT = hormonal treatment; PTH = parathyroid hormone; MRI = magnetic resonance imaging