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The Journal of Nuclear Medicine Vol. 15 No. 12 1209-1211
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Disappearance of Autonomous Thyroid Nodule Under TSH Stimulation

Jagmeet S. Soin, Wassel Beal and John A. Burdine

Baylor College of Medicine and Ben Taub General Hospital, Houston, Texas

Correspondence: For reprints contact: John A. Burdine, Nuclear Medicine Section, Dept. of Radiology, Baylor College of Medicine, 1200 Moursund, Houston, Tex. 77025.

ABSTRACT

This report describes a case of an autonomous thyroid nodule that showed greatly decreased uptake of radioactivity following exogenous thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) administration whereas the previously suppressed thyroid parenchyma was clearly visualized. The cause of this phenomenon is not entirely clear.






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