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01.04.2013 | Endocrine imaging
18F-DOPA PET/CT revealed synchronous neuroendocrine tumors in two sisters with MEN2A syndrome
verfasst von:
Giorgio Treglia, Paola Castaldi, Vittoria Rufini
Erschienen in:
Endocrine
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Ausgabe 2/2013
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Excerpt
We report the case of two sisters with Multiple Endocrine Neoplasia type-2A (MEN2A) in whom fluorine-18-dihydroxyphenylalanine (18F-DOPA) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) was useful to early detect different synchronous neuroendocrine tumors (NETs), such as medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) and pheochromocytoma. …