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Lennart Merkle1, Korinna Jöhrens2, Jens Schnabel3
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Klinikum Chemnitz gGmbH, Flemmingsstr. 2, D-09116 Chemnitz, Federal State of Saxony, Germany.
Abstract:
An 83-year-old woman with follicular thyroid cancer (FTC) presented with elevated thyroglobulin levels 5 years after second ablative radioiodine therapy (RAI). A subsequent 18 F-FDG PET/CT revealed small pulmonary nodules and a lesion of the right breast with pathologically increased FDG-uptake. Unexpectedly, the lesion also showed radioiodine uptake under a performed third RAI and was visually absent after a fourth course of treatment. Histologically after core and excisional biopsy, a benign adenomyoepithelioma was confirmed. This is, to our knowledge, the first reported iodine avide adenomyoepithelioma and highlights a rare diagnostic pitfall.
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