In Thyroidectomized Thyroid Cancer Patients, False-Positive I-131 Whole Body Scans Are Often Caused by Inflammation Rather Than Thyroid Cancer
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...
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Main Authors: | Yana Basis Garger MD (Author), Mathew Winfeld MD (Author), Kent Friedman MD (Author), Manfred Blum MD (Author) |
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2016-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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