Milou E Noltes, Schelto Kruijff, Auke P A Appelman, Liesbeth Jansen, Wouter T Zandee, Thera P Links, Bettien M van Hemel, Hugo M Schouw, Rudi A J O Dierckx, Anne Brecht Francken, Wendy Kelder, Anouk van der Hoorn, Adrienne H Brouwers
PURPOSE: Accurate preoperative localization is imperative to guide surgery in primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT). It remains unclear which second-line imaging technique is most effective after negative first-line imaging. In this study, we compare the diagnostic effectiveness of [11 C]methionine PET/CT, [11 C]choline PET/CT, and four dimensional (4D)-CT head-to-head in patients with pHPT, to explore which of these imaging techniques to use as a second-line scan. METHODS: We conducted a powered, prospective, blinded cohort study in patients with biochemically proven pHPT and prior negative or discordant first-line imaging consisting of ultrasonography and 99m Tc-sestamibi...
November 17, 2023: European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging