| Literature DB >> 29261627 |
Sonia Mahajan, Ashok Shaha, Ravinder K Grewal.
Abstract
Ga-DOTATATE, a positron-emitting somatostatin analog, has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for imaging neuroendocrine tumors (NETs). The presence of a second primary malignancy is common in NETs; however, synchronous primary malignancy in the thyroid has rarely been reported. The value of Ga-DOTATATE in medullary thyroid cancer is being investigated and is currently recommended for use when treatment with somatostatin analogs is an option. We present a 55-year-old man with abdominal pain associated with well-differentiated NET liver metastases and incidental medullary thyroid carcinoma demonstrated on a Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT.Entities:
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Year: 2018 PMID: 29261627 PMCID: PMC5752440 DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000001950
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Nucl Med ISSN: 0363-9762 Impact factor: 7.794