Journal of Thyroid Disorders & Therapy
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Aysegul Akgun

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• Case Report
  Value of SPECT/CT in Cervical Vertebra Metastasis Mimicking Residual Thyroid Tissue on Planar I-131 Scan
  Author(s): Aylin Oral, Ozgur Omur, Bulent Yazici and Aysegul Akgun Aylin Oral, Ozgur Omur, Bulent Yazici and Aysegul Akgun
  
  A total thyroidectomy was performed on a 62 year-old male patient with 3.5 cm cold nodule and diagnosis of differentiated thyroid carcinoma was made. He received 200 mCi of I-131 because pulmonary metastases were founded on computed tomography and his serum thyroglobulin level was high (>300 ng/ml). Post-therapy planar whole body scan showed diffuse pulmonary tracer accumulation consistent with pulmonary metastases, 3 foci of activities in the thyroid region of neck and physiological tracer uptake in the liver. Initially, it was considered that high serum thyroglobulin level was caused by pulmonary metastases and activities in the neck were due to residual thyroid tissue. But, single photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) images demonstrated that the activity in the midline of the neck was originated in the cervical (C5-6) vertebra due to bone met.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2167-7948.1000165

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