| Literature DB >> 18515780 |
A Sinha1, K M Bradley, J Steatham, A Weaver.
Abstract
Various physiological processes can cause potentially misleading appearances in radioiodine whole body scans; proper understanding of the causes of these can therefore obviate diagnostic errors. Whole-body radioiodine scintigraphy with I131 or I123 is an accurate form of imaging used for management of differentiated thyroid carcinoma. Following thyroidectomy, any residual thyroid tissue or metastatic disease is ablated with high dose I131 and diagnostic images are acquired, demonstrating residual thyroid tissue and metastatic disease. However, atypical physiological uptake of I131 can simulate metastases.Entities:
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Year: 2008 PMID： 18515780 PMCID： PMC2408632 DOI： 10.1258/jrsm.2008.080040
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J R Soc Med ISSN： 0141-0768 Impact factor: 5.344