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Pictorial Review of False-Positive Results on Radioiodine Scintigrams of Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer by Amy V. Chudgar; Jagruti C. Shah is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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Radioiodine has served an important role in the diagnostic workup and treatment of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer for more than 6 decades. The interpretation of radioiodine scintigraphic studies should be performed in conjunction with a comprehensive history, histopathologic correlation, and pertinent laboratory values, as well as correlation with available anatomic images and the findings from physical examination. A thorough understanding of the physiology and biodistribution of radioiodine is critical when interpreting radioiodine scintigraphic studies to avoid misinterpretation of physiologic and nonthyroid pathologic variants as thyroid cancer metastases. Differentiating a false-positive finding from a true metastasis on pretherapy radioiodine scintigrams is important to determine the appropriate radioiodine treatment dose. The correct interpretation of posttherapy radioiodine scintigraphic studies is also important to determine if repeat radioiodine treatment will be necessary and for the future clinical and imaging followup of the patient. A variety of different factors, such as the presence of the sodium-iodide symporter and the passive diffusion or retention o
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- Author
- Amy V. Chudgar; Jagruti C. Shah
- Publisher
- The Radiological Society of North America; Radiological Society of North America; Radiological Society of North America, Inc.; Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) (ISSN 0271-5333)
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)