Selectively false-positive radionuclide scan in a patient with sarcoidosis and papillary thyroid cancer: a case report and review of the literature

BACKGROUND: Radioiodine and Tc-99 m pertechnetate scans are routinely relied upon to detect metastasis in papillary thyroid cancer; false-positive scans are relatively rare. To our knowledge, no published reports exist of sarcoidosis causing such selectively false-positive scans. METHODS: We present...

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Autores principales: Lebo, Nicole L, Raymond, Francois, Odell, Michael J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4440505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25971453
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40463-015-0069-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4440505/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25971453
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40463-015-0069-3

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