Table 2 Sites for recurrent diseases in 54 patients with true-positive 18F-FDG PET/CT findings.

From: Diagnostic Performance of 18F-FDG PET/CT in Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma with Negative 131I-WBS at first Postablation, Negative Tg and Progressively Increased TgAb Level

Sites of recurrent diseases

No. of patients/foci

Cervical lymph nodes

39/51

Thyroid bed

5/5

Left

16/22

Right

18/24

Parapharyngeal lymph nodes

2/2

Parotid lymph nodes

1/1

Mediastinal lymph nodes

6/7

Lungs

4

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