Vertebral hemangioma mimicking a metastatic bone lesion in well- differentiated thyroid carcinoma

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 611-613

  Laguna, Reinaldo ^a,b   Silva, Frieda ^a   Vazquez Sellés, José ^a   Orduña, Elba ^a   Flores, Charlie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Puerto Rico)

Author keywords

Hemangioma; Thyroid Cancer

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BONE METASTASIS; CANCER STAGING; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA; HUMAN; THYROID CARCINOMA; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMANGIOMA; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LYMPH NODE EXCISION; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SPINAL NEOPLASMS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 0033943592     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003072-200008000-00008     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Baker ND, Greenspan A, Neuwirth M: Symptomatic vertebral hemangiomas: a report of four cases. Skeletal Radiol 15:458, 1986.
2. Williams AG Jr, Mettler FA Jr: Vertebral hemangioma: radionuclide, radiographic, and CT correlation. Clin Nucl Med 10:598, 1985.
3. McDougall RI: Whole body scintigraphy with radioiodine-131. A comprehensive list of false-positive with some examples. Clin Nucl Med 20:869, 1995.
4. Sutter ACW, Masilungan BG, Stadalnik RC: False positive results of I-131 whole body scans in patients with thyroid cancer. Semin Nucl Med 25:279, 1995.
5. Matheja P, Lerch H, Schmid KW, et al: Frontal sinus mucocele mimicking a metastasis of papillary thyroid carcinoma. J Nucl Med 38:1022, 1997.
6. Schnyder P, Fankhauser H, Mansouri B: Computed tomography in spinal hemangioma with cord compression. Skeletal Radiol 15:372, 1986.
7. Greenler DP, Klein HA: The scope of false-positive iodine-131 images for thyroid carcinoma. Clin Nucl Med 14:111, 1989.
8. Bakheet ASM, Hammami MM: False positive radioiodine whole body scan in the thyroid cancer patients due to unrelated pathology. Clin Nucl Med 19:325, 1994.
9. Faria SL, Schlupp WR, Chiminazzo H Jr: Radiotherapy in the treatment of vertebral hemangiomas. Int J Radiation Oncology Biol Phys 11:387, 1985.
10. Blankstein A, Spiegelmann R, Schinder E, et al: Hemangioma of the thoracic spine involving multiple adjacent levels: case report. Paraplegia 26:186, 1988.
11. Marimont JV, Shapiro WM: Vertebral Hemangioma associated with spinal cord compression. South Med J 18, 12:1586, 1988.
12. Hollenberg M, Dougherty J: Lymph flow and 131-I-albumin resorption from pericardial effusions in man. Am J Cardiol 24: 514, 1969.
13. Parving H, Hansen JM, Nielsen SL, et al: Mechanism of edema formation in myxedema increased protein extravasation and relatively slow lymphatic drainage. N Engl J Med 301:460, 1979.