131Iodine is used both to ablate any residual thyroid tissue or metastatic disease and to obtain wholebody diagnostic images after total thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). Even though whole-body scan is highly accurate in showing thyroid residues as well as metastases of DTC, false positive results can be found, possibly leading to diagnostic errors and unnecessary treatments. This paper reviews the physiological and pathological processes involved as well as the strategy to recognize and rule out false positive radioiodine images.
False positive diagnosis on 131iodine whole-body scintigraphy of differentiated thyroid cancers
TRIGGIANI, Vincenzo;DE PERGOLA, Giovanni;LICCHELLI, BRUNELLA;GUASTAMACCHIA, Edoardo
2016-01-01
Abstract
131Iodine is used both to ablate any residual thyroid tissue or metastatic disease and to obtain wholebody diagnostic images after total thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). Even though whole-body scan is highly accurate in showing thyroid residues as well as metastases of DTC, false positive results can be found, possibly leading to diagnostic errors and unnecessary treatments. This paper reviews the physiological and pathological processes involved as well as the strategy to recognize and rule out false positive radioiodine images.File in questo prodotto:
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