Two Cases of Synchronous Hodgkin Lymphoma and Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma in 18F-FDG PET/CT

Ru Wang; Haidong Cai; Changcun Liu; Zhongwei Lv; Chao Ma

doi:10.1097/RLU.0000000000005261

Two Cases of Synchronous Hodgkin Lymphoma and Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma in 18F-FDG PET/CT

Clin Nucl Med. 2024 May 1. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000005261. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Ru Wang¹, Haidong Cai¹, Changcun Liu², Zhongwei Lv¹, Chao Ma¹

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Shanghai Tenth People's Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University.
² Department of Nuclear Medicine, Shanghai First People Hospital, Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.

PMID: 38689445
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000005261

Abstract

The concurrence of Hodgkin lymphoma and papillary thyroid carcinoma is a rare clinical event. Two women presented with a painless mass in the neck that was suspected malignancy by ultrasonography. Both cases shown in the 18F-FDG PET/CT images demonstrated multiple foci of increased FDG uptake in the neck, mimicking thyroid carcinoma with contralateral cervical lymph node metastases. Unexpectedly, the postoperative pathologies confirmed the thyroid lesion of papillary carcinoma and contralateral cervical lymph nodes of classical Hodgkin lymphoma.