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 |
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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