Risk of Malignancy in FDG-Avid Thyroid Incidentalomas on PET/CT: A Prospective Study

Chadi Nimeh Abdel-Halim,Tine Rosenberg,Kristine Bjørndal,Anders Rørbæk Madsen,John Jakobsen,Helle Døssing,Mette Bay,Anders Thomassen,Anne Lerberg Nielsen,Christian Godballe

Risk of Malignancy in FDG-Avid Thyroid Incidentalomas on PET/CT: A Prospective Study

2019

Chadi Nimeh Abdel-Halim
Tine Rosenberg
Kristine Bjørndal
Anders Rørbæk Madsen
John Jakobsen
Helle Døssing
Mette Bay
Anders Thomassen
Anne Lerberg Nielsen
Christian Godballe

Background Due to a substantial risk of malignancy, patients with focal FDG-avid thyroid incidentalomas (FFTIs) on PET/CT are in most of Denmark referred to Head and Neck Cancer (HNC) fast track programs. The aim of this study was to determine the risk of malignancy in FFTI managed in a HNC fast track program.

Keywords:

General surgery
Radiology
Thyroid
PET-CT
Medicine
Malignancy
Prospective cohort study
Fast track
Comorbidity
Cytology
Head and neck cancer

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