Distant metastases of a papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is rare, and usually involves the lung or the bones. Adrenal metastasis of a PTC has been described only in three patients. We describe a 74-year-old woman with adrenal metastasis of a PTC, detected with a total body iodine scan and a PET-CT scan.

To the Editor: Warthin’s tumour (WT) is also known as adenolymphoma or papillary cystadenoma lymphomatosum. It is the most common ‘monomorphic’ adenoma of the major salivary glands and accounts for 12% of all parotid tumours [1, 2]. It is benign and is predominantly found within the parotid gland. The majority of extra-parotid WT occur in the peri-parotid and cervical lymph nodes. They are usua...

Serum thyroglobulin (Tg) and Tg antibody (TgAb) levels, together with neck ultrasonography and 131I whole-body scintigraphy (WBS), are diagnostic tools for postoperative follow-up of patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC). Generally, good correlation is seen between Tg and WBS in follow-up studies for DTC after thyroid remnant ablation. Undetectable serum Tg with negative WBS resu...

BACKGROUND In the most patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC), recurrent disease occurs in the neck region, but the usefulness of neck ultrasound (US) in its diagnosis is not clear. The aim of this study was to evaluate the significance of US in the detection of neck recurrence in low-risk DTC patients at first follow-up visits. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 32 patients, who h...

Introduction:Differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC) follow-up after thyroidectomy and radioiodine-ablation is performed mainly by thyroglobulin (Tg), diagnostic iodine-131 whole body scan (DxWBS) and sonography. Some patients with undetectable Tg have thyroid-bed uptake after ablation in whom decision making regarding the need for retreatment is still controversial. Me...

objective(s): it is difficult to investigate the whole-body distribution of an orally administered drug by means of positron emission tomography (pet), owing to the short physical half-life of radionuclides, especially when 11c-labeled compounds are tested. therefore, we aimed to examine the whole-body distribution of donepezil (dnp) as an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor by means of 11c-dnp pet ...

After thyroidectomy in papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) patients, whole body radioiodine scan (WBIS) is necessary for localization of any abnormal radioiodine avid lesions. However false-positive radioiodine uptake in WBIS can be problematic. We report a 32 years old female patient with PTC. After thyroidectomy and radioiodine therapy WBIS was performed. In her post therapy WBIS, there were zo...