Differentiated thyroid cancer: Case report of false positive < sup > 131 < /sup > I uptake on whole body scintigraphy in a patient with bilateral femur osteonecrosis

CONCLUSION: Radioiodine WBS plays an important role in clinical decision making for the evaluation and the management of patients with DTC. Despite its high range of sensitivity and specificity, a variety of reports of false positive whole body scans has demonstrated a diversity of causes. Comprehension of the physiology of iodine uptake and of the pathophysiology of clinical entities which end up giving false positives scans, provides clinicians a useful tool in order to avoid diagnostic and therapeutic errors as far as DTC is concerned.PMID:37031423 | DOI:10.1967/s002449912556
Source: Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine - Category: Nuclear Medicine Authors: Source Type: research