In Thyroidectomized Thyroid Cancer Patients, False-Positive I-131 Whole Body Scans Are Often Caused by Inflammation Rather Than Thyroid Cancer

• मुख्य लेखकों: Yana Basis Garger MD (लेखक), Mathew Winfeld MD (लेखक), Kent Friedman MD (लेखक), Manfred Blum MD (लेखक)
• स्वरूप: पुस्तक
• प्रकाशित: SAGE Publishing, 2016-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• विषय: article
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Objective. To show that I-131 false-positive results on whole-body scans (WBSs) after thyroidectomy for thyroid cancer may be a result of inflammation unassociated with the cancer. Methods. We performed a retrospective image analysis of our database of thyroid cancer patients who underwent WBS from...