False-positive whole-body iodine-131 scan due to intrahepatic duct dilatation

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1977-1979

  You, Dong Ling ^a   Tzen, Kai Yuan ^a   Chen, Jung Fu ^a   Kao, Pan Fu ^a   Tsai, Ming Fong ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Biliary tract stasis; Iodine 131; Thyroid cancer

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; HUMAN; INTRAHEPATIC CHOLESTASIS; LIVER METASTASIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID CANCER; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; CHOLESTASIS, INTRAHEPATIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0031472804     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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