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Thymic hyperplasia after treatment of Cushing's syndrome

Creators

  • 1. Service de medecine nucleaire, CH du Mans, 194, avenue Rubillard, 72037 Le Mans cedex 9 (France)

Description

The sudden resolution of hypercortisolism induces the appearance of thymic hyperplasia. This had never been described by PET/CT with 18F-FDG. This examination would therefore make it possible, through the scanographic aspect associated with the moderate hyper-fixation of the tracer with a characteristic inverse 'V' aspect, to orient towards benignity and avoid surgery for histo-pathological confirmation. A remote control PET/CT with 18F-FDG makes it possible to ensure the regression of the thymic infiltrate

Availability note (English)

Available from doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mednuc.2019.10.001

Abstract (French)

La resolution brutale d'un hypercortisolisme induit l'apparition d'une hyperplasie thymique. Ceci n'avait jamais ete decrit en TEP/ TDM au 18F-FDG. Cet examen permettrait donc, par le biais de l'aspect scanographique associe a l'hyperfixation moderee du traceur avec un aspect caracteristique en 'V' inverse, d'orienter vers la benignite et d'eviter une chirurgie pour confirmation histopathologique. Une TEP/TDM au 18F-FDG de controle a distance permet de s'assurer de la regression de l'infiltrat thymique. (auteurs)

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Additional titles

Original title (French)
Hyperplasie thymique apres traitement d'un syndrome de Cushing

Identifiers

DOI
10.1016/j.mednuc.2019.10.001;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
Medecine Nucleaire. Imagerie Fonctionnelle et Metabolique
Journal Volume
44
Journal Issue
no.1
Journal Page Range
p. 72-75
ISSN
0928-1258
CODEN
MNIMEX

INIS

Country of Publication
France
Country of Input or Organization
France
INIS RN
53112190
Subject category
S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
Descriptors DEI
BIOLOGICAL RADIATION EFFECTS; CUSHING SYNDROME; FLUORINE 18; FRANCE; HYDROCORTISONE; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; POSITRON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; POST-IRRADIATION EXAMINATION; RADIONUCLIDE KINETICS; THYMUS; THYMUS CELLS; TRACER TECHNIQUES
Descriptors DEC
ADRENAL HORMONES; ANIMAL CELLS; BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BETA-PLUS DECAY RADIOISOTOPES; BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS; BODY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CORTICOSTEROIDS; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; DISEASES; EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOCRINE DISEASES; EUROPE; FLUORINE ISOTOPES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HORMONES; HOURS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; HYDROXY COMPOUNDS; ISOMERIC TRANSITION ISOTOPES; ISOTOPE APPLICATIONS; ISOTOPES; KETONES; KINETICS; LIGHT NUCLEI; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MEDICINE; NANOSECONDS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES; NUCLEI; ODD-ODD NUCLEI; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANS; PREGNANES; RADIATION EFFECTS; RADIOISOTOPES; SOMATIC CELLS; STEROID HORMONES; STEROIDS; TOMOGRAPHY; WESTERN EUROPE

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