A: angiography; US: ultrasonography; EUS: endoscopic ultrasonography; IUS: intraoperative ultrasonography; EUS-FNA: endoscopic ultrasonography-guided fine-needle aspiration; MRI: magnetic resonance imaging; SRS: octreoscan; CT: computerized tomography; MDCT: multidetector computerized tomography; PET: positron emission tomography; PET-CT: PET with computerized tomography; ICC: immunocytochemist...

Breast cancer patients undergoing PET/CT scans for neoadjuvant systemic therapy may have non-breast (BC) related finding. The aim of this study is to describe the incidence, additional work-up and possible impact these findings. We included BC who underwent a scan in our institute between 2011-2019 prior therapy. An finding was defined as non-physiologic abnormal lesion only depicted by PET/CT....

We report a case of synchronous bilateral pituitary adenomas in a patient with multiple endocrine neoplasia type one (MEN1). The patient was previously known to have a pancreatic gastrinoma and had first-degree relatives with MEN1. Both adenomas were concurrently revealed by high-resolution MR imaging of the pituitary gland as part of the investigation of the patient's severe, persistent headac...

OBJECTIVE Thyroid cancer is the most common endocrine cancer. This review evaluates the established use of (18)F-FDG PET/CT in papillary, follicular, Hürthle cell, anaplastic, and medullary thyroid cancers. The significance of incidental diffuse and focal thyroid FDG uptake is discussed. The evolving value of non-FDG radiotracers, including (124)I, (18)F-dihydroxyphenylalanine, and (68)Ga somat...

BACKGROUND Ovarian cysts are a common cause for gynecological surgery. However, some cysts are a direct result of endocrine disorders and do not require surgery. This report describes an unusual case in which persistent ovarian cysts are associated with primary hypothyroidism in a young woman. The data were collected by history-taking, physical examination, laboratory tests, ultrasound, magneti...

Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is the 5th leading cause of cancer-related death in Western countries and insulinomas are rare endocrine neoplasms of the pancreas. The concurrent appearance of pancreatic adenocarcinoma and insulinoma is very rare and to the best of our knowledge has never been reported again. Herein, we present such an occurrence in a 74-year-old man. Resection of a mass in the uncin...

CONTEXT Mixed tumors of the pancreas are exceedingly rare. CASE REPORT We herein report on a 54-year-old female who presented with an enlarging cystic lesion in the head of the pancreas. Right upper quadrant ultrasound and multidetector-row CT scan showed a well-defined unilocular cystic tumor located in the head of the pancreas and surrounded, in part, by a hypervascular solid mass. CONCLU...

Diagnostic procedures for secreting endocrine pancreatic tumors comprise biochemical tests, CT scans, conventional abdominal sonography, angiography and occasionally MR imaging and isotope scans. Due to their small size, insulinomas and gastrinomas, the most common of these tumors, elude these diagnostic procedures. Preoperative sonography and CT scans were negative in over 60%, angiograms in 3...