Research Article
Hypermetabolic Thyroid Incidentaloma on Positron Emission Tomography: Review of Laboratory, Radiologic, and Pathologic Characteristics
Table 1
General characteristics of the cases.
| | Case | Age | Gender | Underlying disease | SUV max | | Nature | Echogenicity | Border | Calcification | Vascularity | | Pathology |
| | (1) | 43 | F | Breast ductal carcinoma | 4.7 | Euthyroid | Solid | Hypoechoic | Unspecified | No | Normal | 8 × 12 | Benign | | (2) | 51 | F | Breast ductal carcinoma | 3.5 | Euthyroid | Solid | Hypoechoic | Unspecified | No | Normal | 6 × 11 | Benign | | (3) | 30 | F | Great arteries vasculitis | 4.3 | Euthyroid | Solid | Hypoechoic | Specified | No | Peripheral increase | 5 × 13 | Benign | | (4) | 36 | M | Colon adenocarcinoma | 3.9 | Euthyroid | Solid | Isoechoic | Specified | No | Peripheral increase | 14 × 15 | Benign | | (5) | 65 | M | Colon adenocarcinoma | 5.6 | Euthyroid | Solid/cystic | Hypoechoic | Unspecified | Micro | Peripheral increase | 25 × 26 | Malignant | | (6) | 61 | M | Colon adenocarcinoma | 1.4 | Euthyroid | Solid | Hypoechoic | Specified | No | Normal | 17 × 19 | Benign | | (7) | 54 | F | Colon adenocarcinoma | 5.1 | Euthyroid | Solid | Hypoechoic | Unspecified | No | Normal | 8 × 10 | Benign | | (8) | 63 | M | B cell lymphoma | 18.9 | Euthyroid | Solid | Hypoechoic | Unspecified | Micro | Peripheral increase | 21 × 30 | Malignant | | (9) | 22 | F | Synovial sarcoma | 14.7 | Euthyroid | Solid | Hypoechoic | Specified | Coarse | Peripheral increase | 19 × 22 | Benign | | (10) | 56 | M | Lung adenocarcinoma | 65.4 | Euthyroid | Solid | Hypoechoic | Unspecified | No | Central increase | 13 × 45 | Malignant | | (11) | 49 | F | Lung adenocarcinoma | 5.9 | Euthyroid | Solid | Hypoechoic | Unspecified | No | Peripheral increase | 7 × 17 | Benign | | (12) | 43 | F | Anal melanoma | 3.6 | Euthyroid | Solid | Isoechoic | Specified | No | Normal | 7 × 13 | Benign | | (13) | 32 | F | Adenocarcinoma of uterus | 8.6 | Euthyroid | Solid | Hypoechoic | Specified | No | Peripheral increase | 13 × 17 | Benign | | (14) | 72 | M | Without any origin | 2.7 | Euthyroid | Solid/cystic | Hypoechoic | Specified | No | Normal | 10 × 12 | Benign | | (15) | 44 | F | B cell lymphoma | 3.5 | Euthyroid | Solid/cystic | Isoechoic | Specified | No | Normal | 8 × 10 | Benign | | (16) | 59 | F | Papillary serous carcinoma of the ovary | 10 | Euthyroid | Solid | Hypoechoic | Unspecified | No | Peripheral increase | 5 × 10 | Benign | | (17) | 55 | M | Multiple myeloma | 1.9 | Euthyroid | Solid | Hypoechoic | Unspecified | No | Normal | 14 × 16 | Benign | | (18) | 62 | M | Melanoma of the plantar | 5.9 | Euthyroid | Solid | Hypoechoic | Unspecified | No | Peripheral increase | 7 × 16 | Benign |
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