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Case Reports
. 2025 Oct 1;50(10):e617-e620.
doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000005825. Epub 2025 Mar 10.

18F-Fluorocholine PET/CT for the Staging and Follow-up of a Patient Suffering From Metastatic Parathyroid Carcinoma

Margaux Brument  1 , Sylvie Zanetta  2 , Clément Drouet  3
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Case Reports

18F-Fluorocholine PET/CT for the Staging and Follow-up of a Patient Suffering From Metastatic Parathyroid Carcinoma

Margaux Brument et al. Clin Nucl Med. .

Abstract

Parathyroid carcinoma (PC) is a rare disease, with a frequency of 0.005% of all malignancies. Approximately 30% of patients will develop metastases at some point in the disease. Nonsecreting PC represents <10% of all PC and is harder to diagnose. Here, we report the case of a patient suffering from metastatic nonsecreting PC who has been (and still is) monitored for 4.5 years with 18F-fluorocholine PET/CT.

Keywords: PET/CT; follow-up; parathyroid carcinoma; staging.

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Conflicts of interest and sources of funding: none declared.

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