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Technetium-99m-Pertechnetate Uptake by Intrathyroidal Parathyroid Adenoma

Departments of Nuclear Medicine, Surgery and Pathology, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada

Correspondence: For correspondence or reprints contact: W.D. Leslie, MD, Department of Internal Medicine (C5121), St. Boniface General Hospital, 409 Tache Ave., Winnipeg, Canada R2H 2A6.

ABSTRACT

A 57-yr-old woman was referred for preoperative scintigraphic localization of a parathyroid adenoma. Double-phase ^99mTc-sestamibi imaging was performed followed by a separate-day [^99mTc]pertechnetate thyroid scan. There was marked accumulation of both tracers by a right lower pole "thyroid" nodule which, at surgery, proved to be an intrathyroidal parathyroid adenoma. Hypervascularity is the presumed explanation for rare cases of pertechnetateavid parathyroid adenomas.

Key Words: hyperparathyroidism • technetium-99m-pertechnetate • thyroid scans

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