Pitfall of I-131 whole body scan: a mucinous adenocarcinoma of the ovary

False positive radioiodine uptake following thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid cancer has been reported in some cases. A 57-year-old female patient was referred for ablative radioiodine treatment four weeks after undergoing total thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid carcinoma. Posttherapeutic I...

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Autores principales: Sellem, Ali, Msakni, Issam, Elajmi, Wassim, Hammami, Hatem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7386273/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32774631
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.72.21507
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author Sellem, Ali
Msakni, Issam
Elajmi, Wassim
Hammami, Hatem
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description False positive radioiodine uptake following thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid cancer has been reported in some cases. A 57-year-old female patient was referred for ablative radioiodine treatment four weeks after undergoing total thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid carcinoma. Posttherapeutic I-131 scintigraphy showed uptake in the neck and large focus in the lower abdomen and pelvis. Pathology revealed a mucinous adenocarcinoma of the right ovary.
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spelling pubmed-73862732020-08-07 Pitfall of I-131 whole body scan: a mucinous adenocarcinoma of the ovary Sellem, Ali Msakni, Issam Elajmi, Wassim Hammami, Hatem Pan Afr Med J Case Report False positive radioiodine uptake following thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid cancer has been reported in some cases. A 57-year-old female patient was referred for ablative radioiodine treatment four weeks after undergoing total thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid carcinoma. Posttherapeutic I-131 scintigraphy showed uptake in the neck and large focus in the lower abdomen and pelvis. Pathology revealed a mucinous adenocarcinoma of the right ovary. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC7386273/ /pubmed/32774631 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.36.72.21507 Text en © Ali Sellem et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_fullStr Pitfall of I-131 whole body scan: a mucinous adenocarcinoma of the ovary
title_full_unstemmed Pitfall of I-131 whole body scan: a mucinous adenocarcinoma of the ovary
title_short Pitfall of I-131 whole body scan: a mucinous adenocarcinoma of the ovary
title_sort pitfall of i-131 whole body scan: a mucinous adenocarcinoma of the ovary
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7386273/
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