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incidental radioiodine uptake in the orbital region. Introduction Differentiated thyroid cancer is one of the most prevalent solid tumor types with a rising incidence, and papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) represents the most frequent variant [ 1
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that were at risk of pathological fracture in these patients. SPECT/CT was particularly useful for the assessment of non-radioiodine avid disease in patients where planar scintigraphy was negative. Incidental significant pathologies were also identified
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malignant tissue [ 2 ]. Incidental diffuse and focal thyroid uptake is often seen on 18 F-FDG PET/CT study. Diffuse uptake in the thyroid has been reported in approximately 0.6-3.3% of the 18 F-FDG PET studies and is often due to a benign aetiology [ 3
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much smaller in all cases and was not even sampled by fine-needle aspiration. Furthermore, in two cases, it was smaller than 5 mm. The rate of incidental MTC is not well established and the optimal treatment of such incidental findings is under debate
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agreement between first and second FNA was significantly high ( 6 ). About 15% of their patients with benign first and second FNAs had a resection pathology of a thyroid malignancy, and 14% had incidental microcarcinoma, both rates were similar to benign