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Scintigraphic Evaluation of Liver Metastases from Thyroid Carcinoma

LAC/USC Medical Center and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Cedars of Lebanon Hospital Division, Los Angeles, California

Correspondence: For reprints contact: Jan K. Siemsen, Box 698, LAC/USC Medical Center, 1220 N. State St., Los Angeles, Calif. 90033.

ABSTRACT

Thirty-one patients with carcinoma of the thyroid were evaluated using ¹³¹I scan of the torso including the area of the liver. Focal areas of ¹³¹I uptake were found in the liver in two patients with follicular thyroid carcinoma. Both patients showed associated abnormalities on ^99mTc-sulfur colloid liver scans. The remaining 29 patients showed either no uptake or a normal diffuse pattern of ¹³¹I uptake in liver. Careful evaluation of the liver is recommended on the radioiodine body scan for metastases in patients with thyroid carcinoma.