Iodine-131 Uptake in Focal Bronchiectasis Mimicking Metastatic Thyroid Cancer

Clinical Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 351-352

  Song, Ho Chun ^a   Heo, Young Jun ^a   Kim, Seong Min ^a   Bom, Hee Seung ^a  

^a Chonnam National University Medical School   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Bronchiectasis; Iodine 131; Thyroid Carcinoma

Indexed keywords

IODINE 131; THYROGLOBULIN; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; INDIUM; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHUS MUCOSA; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY; HUMAN; ISOTOPE LABELING; SCINTISCANNING; THYROGLOBULIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID CANCER; THYROID PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROIDECTOMY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LUNG TUMOR; METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PAPILLARY CARCINOMA; THYROID TUMOR;

BRONCHIECTASIS; CARCINOMA, PAPILLARY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIUM RADIOISOTOPES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 85047691210     PISSN: 03639762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.RLU.0000057622.08265.54     Document Type: Article

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