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Increased fluoro-deoxyglucose uptake in the left ninth rib (PET)

Positron emission tomographic images show increased fluoro-deoxyglucose uptake in the left ninth rib in a 74-year-old man with diffuse follicular variant papillary thyroid cancer metastatic to the pituitary. (Source: Kırkgoz T, Gürsoy S, Acar S, et al. Genetic diagnosis of congenital hypopituitarism in Turkish patients by a target gene panel: novel pathogenic variants in GHRHR, GLI2, LHX4, and POU1F1 genes. Arch Endocrinol Metab 2023;68:e220254. Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International [CC BY 4.0] license, creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0.)

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