Rare Thyroid Cartilage Metastasis From Breast Cancer Visualized on 18F-NaF PET/CT.

Sharjeel Usmani, Najeeb Ahmed, Muhammad Waqas Ilyas, Sarah Murad, Fareeda Al Kandari

Clinical nuclear medicine 2021 Jan

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Metastatic involvement of the thyroid cartilage is rare due to the absence of vessels within the cartilaginous tissue. We present the case of a 65-year-old woman recently diagnosed with breast cancer referred for skeletal staging with F-NaF PET/CT. She was found to have multiple osteoblastic metastases along with thyroid cartilage metastasis. Rare thyroid cartilage metastasis on F-NaF PET/CT may have prognostic significance in cancer patients.

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Sharjeel Usmani, Najeeb Ahmed, Muhammad Waqas Ilyas, Sarah Murad, Fareeda Al Kandari. Rare Thyroid Cartilage Metastasis From Breast Cancer Visualized on 18F-NaF PET/CT. Clinical nuclear medicine. 2021 Jan;46(1):43-44