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Table 2 Overview included studies and incidental findings included and synthesized in our review

From: Prevalence and significance of incidental findings on 68 Ga-DOTA-conjugated somatostatin receptor-targeting peptide PET/CT: a systematic review of the literature

Author

Year

Country

Tracer

Study design

Number of findings included and synthesized in review

Findings included and synthesized in our review

Elgeti

2008

Germany

Ga-68-DOTATOC

Cohort, retro

2

2 Invasive ductal breast cancer

Law

2013

Australia

Ga-68-DOTATATE

Case report

1

1 Meningioma

Kuyumcu

2013

Turkey

Ga-68-DOTATATE

Cohort, retrospective

3

1 Breast fibroadenoma

1 Meningioma

1 Fibrous Dysplasia

Skoura

2015

UK

Ga-68-DOTATATE

Case report

1

1 Vertebral hemangioma

Kunikowska

2015

Poland

Ga-68-DOTATATE

Cohort, retrospective

46a

14 Hashimotos

14 Goiter

10 Physiological / nodular thyroid gland

8 Hashimotos + goiter

1 Papillary thyroid carcinomaa

Chan

2016

Australia

Ga-68-DOTATATE

Case report

1

1 Medulloblastoma cerebrum

Cleary

2016

UK

Ga-68-DOTATATE

Cohort, retrospective

10

4 Meningioma

6 Physiological uptake

Lasocki

2016

Australia

Ga-68-DOTATATE

Case report

1

1 Cerebellar hemangioblastoma

Has Simsek

2016

Turkey

Ga-68-DOTATATE

Case report

1

1 Solitary bone plasmacytoma

Nockel

2016

USA

Ga-68-DOTATATE

Cohort, retrospective

16

8 Thyroid adenomas

4 Goiter

3 Papillary thyroid carcinoma

1 Physiological / nodular thyroid gland

Yamaga

2017

Brazil

Ga-68-DOTATATE

Case report(s)

3

1 Non-Hodgkins lymphoma

1 Breast carcinoma

1 Thyroid adenoma

Vadrucci

2017

Italy

Ga-68-DOTATOC

Case report

1

1 Retiform hemangioendothelioma

Mahajan

2017

USA

Ga-68-DOTATATE

Case report

1

1 Medullary thyroid carcinoma

Sampaio

2018

Portugal

Ga-68-DOTANOC

Case report

1

1 Breast cancer

Arora

2018

India

Ga-68-DOTANOC

Case report

1

1 Parathyroid adenoma

Laurens

2018

Netherlands

Ga-68-DOTATOC

Case report

1

1 Pleomorphic parotid adenoma

Ishiyama

2018

USA

Ga-68-DOTATATE

Case report

1

1 Elastofibroma dorsi

Gauthe

2018

France

Ga-68-DOTATOC

Cohort, retrospective

28

28 Vertebral hemangiomas

Parghane

2019

India

Ga-68-DOTATATE

Cohort, retrospective

12

6 Meningiomas

4 Skull base paragangliomas (metastatic)

2 Pituitary adenomas

Pandika

2019

USA

Ga-68-DOTATATE

Case report

1

1 Gynecomastia

Liu

2020

China

Ga-68-DOTATATE

Case report

1

1 Uterine leiomyoma

  1. a Note: one the thyroid incidental SSTR PET/CT findings are reported twice since one lesion was initially reported as benign and later found to be malignant