Inactive pulmonary tuberculosis mimicking metastasis from papillary thyroid carcinoma in diagnostic radioiodine whole-body scintigraphy

Thyroid

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1105-1106

  Picolos, Michails K ^a,b   Habra, Mouhammed ^a,c   Safdar, Amar ^a   Sarlis, Nicholas J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; GALLIUM 67; IODINE; IODINE 131; PENTETREOTIDE IN 111; RADIOACTIVE IODINE; RECOMBINANT THYROTROPIN; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; BIOACCUMULATION; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHOSCOPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG LAVAGE; LUNG METASTASIS; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; LYMPH NODE HYPERPLASIA; MALE; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE THERAPY; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; TUBERCULIN TEST; URINARY EXCRETION; WHOLE BODY SCINTISCANNING;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; HUMANS; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROTROPIN; TUBERCULOSIS, PULMONARY; WHOLE-BODY COUNTING;

EID: 26944442349     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2005.15.1105     Document Type: Article

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