18F-FDG PET/CT of Papillary Carcinoma in a Lateral Thyroglossal Duct Cyst.
- Sachpekidis C From the *Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Bern University Hospital; †Institute of Pathology, University of Bern; and ‡Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland.
- Dettmer MS
- Weidner S
- Giger R
- Wartenberg J
- 2017-05-20
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- Clinical nuclear medicine. - 2017
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Carcinoma, Papillary
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Humans
Lymphatic Metastasis
Male
Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography
Thyroglossal Cyst
Thyroid Cancer, Papillary
Thyroid Neoplasms
English
A 69-year-old man presented with bulging of the right oropharyngeal wall, which revealed cytopathologically malignant cells. The man underwent MRI and F-FDG PET/CT, which demonstrated a cystic parapharyngeal lesion with an F-FDG-avid soft tissue component and right cervical lymph node. The patient was operated on and showed thyroid cancer in normal thyroid tissue, compatible with a papillary thyroid carcinoma in a lateral thyroglossal duct cyst and 2 ipsilateral lymph node metastases. Despite its rarity, papillary thyroid carcinoma in a thyroglossal duct cyst should be kept as one of the differential diagnoses in patients presenting with parapharyngeal cystic lesion.
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- DOI 10.1097/RLU.0000000000001712
- PMID 28525461
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