Artifacts, anatomical and physiological variants, and unrelated diseases that might cause false-positive whole-body 131-I scans in patients with thyroid cancer

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 115-132

  Shapiro, Brahm ^a,b,c,d   Rufini, Vittoria ^a,b,c   Jarwan, Ayman ^a,b,c   Geatti, Onelio ^a,b,c   Kearfott, Kimberlee J ^a,b,c   Fig, Lorraine M ^a,b,c   Kirkwood, Ian D ^a,b,c   Gross, Milton D ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^c MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131;

ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG UPTAKE; ECTOPIC TISSUE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STOMACH MUCOSA; THYROID CANCER; THYROIDECTOMY; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

EID: 0034045012     PISSN: 00012998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/nm.2000.5414     Document Type: Article

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