“Tumour sink effect” on the diagnostic or posttreatment radioiodine scan due to sequestration into large-volume functioning metastasis of differentiated thyroid carcinoma influencing uptake in smaller metastatic sites or remnant thyroid tissue: An uncommon but possible phenomenon in thyroid cancer practice

Two patients of differentiated thyroid carcinoma are illustrated demonstrating “sink effect” in posttherapeutic and diagnostic radioiodine (I-131) study: (a) in the first case, it masked the other small-volume metastatic sites (pulmonary and paratracheal nodes) in the posttreatment scan, which were...

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Main Authors: Sandip Basu, Rohit Ranade, Amit Abhyankar
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2020-04-01
Colecção:World Journal of Nuclear Medicine
Assuntos:
differentiated thyroid carcinoma
i-131
radioiodine scan
thyroid carcinoma
tumor sink effect
Acesso em linha:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_54_19
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