PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Sandip Basu
AU  - Amit Abhyankar
TI  - The Added Clinical Value of <sup>18</sup>F-FDG PET/CT in Evaluating Intratracheal Recurrence of Differentiated Thyroid Carcinoma: Implications for Planning Surgery, Assessing Its Completeness, and Planning Radioiodine Therapy
AID  - 10.2967/jnmt.113.127910
DP  - 2013 Dec 01
TA  - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
PG  - 302--305
VI  - 41
IP  - 4
4099  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/41/4/302.short
4100  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/41/4/302.full
SO  - J. Nucl. Med. Technol.2013 Dec 01; 41
AB  - In selected patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma, 18F-FDG PET/CT has been shown to have added value. We present 2 clinical examples in the settings of both iodine-concentrating and non–iodine-concentrating lesions with tracheal involvement with special reference to its importance in planning of surgery or radioiodine therapy and assessing completeness of surgery. We believe that the use of PET/CT should be considered on a case-by-case basis and specifically when SPECT/CT is unavailable or has inconclusive findings.