Specialist registrar
Jeppe Kiilerich Lauridsen
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Odense University Hospital
Projekt styring | ||
Projekt status | Closed | |
Data indsamlingsdatoer | ||
Start | 01.04.2015 | |
Slut | 31.12.2019 | |
The aim is to evaluate the prevalence of malignancy in incidental focal thyroidal uptake on PET with fluorine-18 deoxyglucose integrated with computed tomography (F-FDG PET/CT) in Danish patients.
Focal FDG uptake in the thyroid gland occurs in 1-2% of patients scanned for nonthyroidal causes and is reported to be associated with malignancy in 27-50% of those cases. These numbers are based on international, retrospective data, a Scandinavian demographic lacking.
We will retrospectively review patients who underwent FDG PET/CT scans over a period of 6 years, where focal FDG uptake was observed, to shed light on the risk of malignancy in this Danish cohort.
All patients referred to a FDG PET/CT scan at the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Odense University Hospital, where an incidental focal thyroidal uptake is observed, in the period from 2011 to 2016.
The study will examine the following variables: Gender, age at diagnosis, TSH, Calcitonin, TRAb, anti-TPO, anti-Tg, ultrasound, thyroid-scintigraphy, FNAB, histology, prior thyroid disease, primary disease, follow-up on finding.
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Odense University hospital
Department of Endocrinology, Odense University Hospital
Department of Neurology, Vejle Hospital
Department of ENT Head and Neck Surgery, Odense University Hospital