Unusual false-positive radioiodine whole-body scans in patients with differentiated thyroid carcinoma

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 380-384

  Salvatori, Massimo ^a   Saletnich, Ida ^a   Rufini, Vittoria ^a   Troncone, Luigi ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN METASTASIS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; SKULL INJURY; THYMUS HYPERPLASIA; THYROID CARCINOMA; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; BRAIN NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERPLASIA; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MEDIASTINAL NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SKULL NEOPLASMS; TEMPORAL BONE; THYMUS GLAND; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 0030967629     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-199706000-00007     Document Type: Article

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