Nuclear Medicine & Radiation Therapy

Firuz MD

Publications

• Case Report
  Bronchiectasis Masquerading as Lung Metastasis in a Patient with Papillary Carcinoma Thyroid Identified by 131I Whole Body Scintigraphy
  Author(s): Padma S, Shanmuga Sundaram P and Firuz MDPadma S, Shanmuga Sundaram P and Firuz MD
  
  Differentiated thyroid carcinoma (DTC), arising from thyroid follicular epithelial cells, accounts for the vast majority of thyroid cancers. Despite being well-differentiated, papillary thyroid cancers may be overtly or minimally invasive. They may invade lymphatics but are less likely to invade blood vessels. Iodine-131 (131I) is routinely used to image patients after thyroidectomy to assess the presence of residual thyroid tissue with or without metastasis. False positive 131I scans, showing the presence of 131I uptake in the absence of residual thyroid tissue or metastases can occur, although they are uncommon. Unless recognized as a false positive, 131I uptake may result in diagnostic error and lead to administration of an unnecessary higher therapeutic dose. We present a 55 year old female, histopathologically proven case of follicular variant of papillary carcinoma that underwen.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2155-9619.1000252

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