Jean-Noël Talbot, Sophie Périé, Marc Tassart, Thierry Delbot, Cyrielle Aveline, Jules Zhang-Yin, Khaldoun Kerrou, Sébastien Gaujoux, Isabelle Wagner, Malika Bennis, Fabrice Ménégaux, Sarah Breton, Beatrix Cochand-Priollet, Sophie Christin-Maitre, Lionel Groussin, Jean-Philippe Haymann, Bertrand Baujat, Sona Balogova, Françoise Montravers
BACKGROUND: During the past decade, 18 F-fluorocholine (FCH) PET/CT has been continuously performed at Tenon Hospital (Paris, France) for the detection of hyperfunctioning parathyroid glands (PT). METHODS: A cohort of 401 patients, deliberately referred for HPT since September 2012, has been analyzed. The aim of this real-life retrospective study was to determine the diagnostic utility of FCH in this setting, overall and in subgroups according to the type of hyperparathyroidism (HPT), the context of FCH in the imaging work-up and in the patient's history: initial imaging or persistence or recurrence after previous parathyroidectomy (PTX)...
March 30, 2023: Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging