Bronchogenic Carcinoma Mimicking Metastatic Thyroid Carcinoma Page 1 We present a case of
a false-positive 1311scan in the fol low-up of a patient with papillary thyroid carcinoma, which …

In patients with differentiated thyroid cancer, radioiodine uptake in the area of the lung
usually denotes metastasis; however, it could represent an uptake by unrelated pulmonary …

Whole-body 131 I scan after total thyroidectomy is important in the evaluation of radioiodine
avid metastatic foci in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma. False-positive uptakes …

Methods. All patients had undergone total thyroidecto-my. Case histories were analysed
with respect to age at diagnosis, sex, histology, local lymph node involvement, size of lung …

Differentiated thyroid cancer is an uncommon disease that carries a good prognosis when
treated adequately. Radioiodine treatment is often used as an adjunct to surgery because …

Radioiodine whole-body imaging is the most accurate method in the diagnosis of
metastases from differentiated thyroid cancer. However, false-positive images rarely occur …

A 49-year-old woman with a history of a hysterectomy for carcinoma of the cervix and
papillary thyroid carcinoma showed multiple pulmonary metastases on chest radiography …

Objectives The correlation between a 131 I whole-body scan (WBS), a 99m Tc sestamibi
(99m Tc-MIBI) WBS, a computed tomography (CT) scan and the value of routine follow-up …

Functioning pulmonary metastases are the most common distant lesions of differentiated
thyroid cancer. About 50% of patients with such metastases die within 10 years. The impact …

A 52-year-old man with follicular thyroid carcinoma was administered 182 mCi of
radioiodine (I-131) a month after total thyroidectomy. Post-therapy scan revealed diffuse …