title: A thyroid incidentaloma detected by 18F-choline PET/CT.
abstract: We report a case of thyroid incidentaloma detected by 18F-choline PET/CT. A 66-year-old male patient with a history of prostate cancer underwent a 18F-choline PET/CT for restaging. PET/CT revealed a focal area of increased 18F-choline uptake corresponding to a hypodense nodule in the right lobe of the thyroid. Based on PET/CT findings, the patient underwent a ultrasonography guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy which demonstrated the presence of a benign thyroid nodule.
authors.affiliation: From the *Institute of Nuclear Medicine, †Institute of Radiology, ‡Department of Surgery, Division of Endocrine Surgery, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome; and §Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
authors.forename: Giorgio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Treglia
authors.forename: Elisabetta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Giovannini
authors.forename: Paoletta
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Mirk
authors.forename: Davide
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Di Franco
authors.forename: Luigi
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Oragano
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bertagna
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002794:Choline / Q000031:analogs & derivatives*; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D008297:Male; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: C516370:fluoromethylcholine; D002794:Choline