I-131 uptake in the breast for thyroid cancer surveillance with biopsy- proven benign tissue

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 585-587

  Allen, Tate ^a,b   Wiest, Philip ^a   Vela, Sylvia ^a   Hartshorne, Michael ^a   Crooks, Lida A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fibrocystic Change; I 131; Pseudolactational Hyperplasia; Thyroid Cancer

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; RECURRENT CANCER; REOPERATION; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID SCINTISCANNING; THYROIDECTOMY;

ADULT; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; BREAST; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; FIBROCYSTIC BREAST DISEASE; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; NEOPLASM RECURRENCE, LOCAL; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY;

EID: 0031656159     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-199809000-00004     Document Type: Article

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