Diagnostic imaging of medullary thyroid cancer
Journal Title: Postępy Nauk Medycznych - Year 2015, Vol 28, Issue 12
Abstract
Medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) is an uncommon malignancy with a high tendency tometastasize both to lymph nodes and distant localizations. In recurrent disease the mostimportant prognostic factors are the early diagnosis, localization of the recurrent lesionsand adequate patient selection for further treatment. An important role in monitoringof patients with medullary thyroid cancer plays periodical measurement of calcitoninconcentration, which allows to detect the recurrence early. There is no single universaldiagnostic method to localize all medullary thyroid cancer recurrence lesions, however,the development of positron emission tomography (PET) methods observed in recentyears led to an important progress in this field. Conventional diagnostic methods (ultasonography,computed tomography, magnetic resonance) currently play the basic rolein the diagnosis of the medullary thyroid carcinoma. In this article we also describednuclear medicine imaging, both convencional scintigraphy and positron emission tomographymethods, used in diagnosing of this neoplasm. Particular attention was paidto the use of each method depending on the clinical situation and the suspected locationof tumor foci.
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Magdalena Kochman
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