The whole body 131-I scan remains an important component in the postoperative treatment
of patients with well-differentiated thyroid cancer. Because normal thyroid tissue remnants …

Radioiodine whole-body scintigraphy (WBS), which takes advantage of the high avidity of
radioiodine in the functioning thyroid tissues, has been used for detection of differentiated …

Radioiodine has aided the management of differentiated thyroid cancer for several decades.
Most thyroid cancers retain the ability to trap iodine, and radionuclides of iodine can be used …

Abstract 131 Iodine is used both to ablate any residual thyroid tissue or metastatic disease
and to obtain whole-body diagnostic images after total thyroidectomy for differentiated …

Background Breast carcinoma is a frequent disease that affects the female population. As for
other malignant diseases, several studies have been carried out in an attempt to identify its …

Purpose whole body scan (WBS) performed following diagnostic or therapeutic
administration of I-131 is useful in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma. However, it …

Abstract Background Iodine-131 (I-131) whole-body scan (WBS) plays an important role in
the management of patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC), to detect normal …

False-Positive I-131 Accumulation in a Liver Cyst in a Patie... : Clinical Nuclear Medicine
False-Positive I-131 Accumulation in a Liver Cyst in a Patient with Thyroid Carcinoma …

Abnormal focal accumulation of 131 I is generally a reliable indicator of differentiated thyroid
cancer metastases. However, many examples of false-positive 131 I uptake were reported …

In this report, a case of differentiated thyroid carcinoma having false-positive I-131
accumulation due to a large hydatid cyst in the liver is presented. Abdominal sonographic …