False positive finding on whole-body iodine-131 scan secondary to contaminated face mask: an uncommon peril in current COVID pandemic

Covid-19 has changed the practice of present-day medicine. Social-distancing, hand-sanitation and use of face-mask are important measures taken against its spread. Post-thyroidectomy whole-body diagnostic I-131 scan is an important preliminary investigation for risk stratification and further manage...

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Autores principales: Anwariya, Anupriya, Aggarwal, Piyush, Sood, Ashwani, Tigapuram, Nitheesh, Prashar, Sarika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Mashhad University of Medical Sciences 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9803625/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36619181
http://dx.doi.org/10.22038/AOJNMB.2022.63815.1449
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author Anwariya, Anupriya
Aggarwal, Piyush
Sood, Ashwani
Tigapuram, Nitheesh
Prashar, Sarika
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description Covid-19 has changed the practice of present-day medicine. Social-distancing, hand-sanitation and use of face-mask are important measures taken against its spread. Post-thyroidectomy whole-body diagnostic I-131 scan is an important preliminary investigation for risk stratification and further management in thyroid cancer. False positive findings on diagnostic scan are not uncommon and must be evaluated to avoid unnecessary work-up and treatment. Clinical and biochemical correlation with adjunct SPCET/CT imaging may differentiate true from false-positive lesions. We report a case of unusual false positive linear neck tracer on whole-body diagnostic I-131 scan due to the use of an I-131 contaminated face mask.
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spelling pubmed-98036252023-01-07 False positive finding on whole-body iodine-131 scan secondary to contaminated face mask: an uncommon peril in current COVID pandemic Anwariya, Anupriya Aggarwal, Piyush Sood, Ashwani Tigapuram, Nitheesh Prashar, Sarika Asia Ocean J Nucl Med Biol Case Report Covid-19 has changed the practice of present-day medicine. Social-distancing, hand-sanitation and use of face-mask are important measures taken against its spread. Post-thyroidectomy whole-body diagnostic I-131 scan is an important preliminary investigation for risk stratification and further management in thyroid cancer. False positive findings on diagnostic scan are not uncommon and must be evaluated to avoid unnecessary work-up and treatment. Clinical and biochemical correlation with adjunct SPCET/CT imaging may differentiate true from false-positive lesions. We report a case of unusual false positive linear neck tracer on whole-body diagnostic I-131 scan due to the use of an I-131 contaminated face mask. Mashhad University of Medical Sciences 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC9803625/ /pubmed/36619181 http://dx.doi.org/10.22038/AOJNMB.2022.63815.1449 Text en © 2023 mums.ac.ir All rights reserved https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) ) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Prashar, Sarika
False positive finding on whole-body iodine-131 scan secondary to contaminated face mask: an uncommon peril in current COVID pandemic
title False positive finding on whole-body iodine-131 scan secondary to contaminated face mask: an uncommon peril in current COVID pandemic
title_full False positive finding on whole-body iodine-131 scan secondary to contaminated face mask: an uncommon peril in current COVID pandemic
title_fullStr False positive finding on whole-body iodine-131 scan secondary to contaminated face mask: an uncommon peril in current COVID pandemic
title_full_unstemmed False positive finding on whole-body iodine-131 scan secondary to contaminated face mask: an uncommon peril in current COVID pandemic
title_short False positive finding on whole-body iodine-131 scan secondary to contaminated face mask: an uncommon peril in current COVID pandemic
title_sort false positive finding on whole-body iodine-131 scan secondary to contaminated face mask: an uncommon peril in current covid pandemic
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9803625/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36619181
http://dx.doi.org/10.22038/AOJNMB.2022.63815.1449
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