Table 3 Characteristics of previous studies on thyroid incidentalomas identified with 18FDG-PET/CT or PET alone
From: Thyroid incidentalomas on 18FDG-PET/CT: a metabolico-pathological correlation
Study | Year | Study Type | Technique | Patients | Incidentalomas n (%) | Histopathologic confirmation | Risk of malignancy % (n) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jamsek et al. [15] | 2015 | Retrospective | PET/CT | 5911 | 230 (3.89) | 18 | 15.2 (10/66) |
Pagano et al. [6] | 2011 | Retrospective | PET/CT | 10 881 | 191 (1.8) | 52 | 28.9 (15/52) |
Yang et al. [5] | 2012 | Retrospective | PET/CT | 15 948 | 395 (2.5) | 43 | 29.5 (43/146) |
Kao et al. [10] | 2012 | Retrospective | PET/CT | 942 | 21 (2.2) | 6 | 50 (3/6) |
Nilsson et al. [8] | 2011 | Retrospective | PET/CT | 3641 | 64 (1.8) | 27 | 25 (16/64) |
Ohba et al. [9] | 2010 | Prospective | PET | 1501 | 20 (1.3) | 20 | 55 (11/20) |
Kim et al. [16] | 2010 | Retrospective | PET/CT | 11 623 | 159 (1.4) | 159 | 23.3 (37/159) |
King et al. [11] | 2007 | Retrospective | PET et PET/CT | 15 711 | 22 (0.1) | 22 | 13.6 (2/22) |
Yi et al. [12] | 2005 | Retrospective | PET/CT | 140 | 6 (4.3) | 5 | 80.0 (4/5) |