False-positive I-131 accumulation in a liver cyst in a patient with thyroid carcinoma

Clin Nucl Med. 2001 Mar;26(3):198-201. doi: 10.1097/00003072-200103000-00003.

Abstract

Iodine-131 uptake was seen in the right upper abdominal quadrant of a patient with postoperative differentiated thyroid cancer that corresponded with a large liver cyst.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Carcinoma, Papillary* / diagnostic imaging
  • Carcinoma, Papillary* / secondary
  • Cysts / diagnostic imaging*
  • False Positive Reactions
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Iodine Radioisotopes* / therapeutic use
  • Liver Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
  • Liver Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Liver Neoplasms / secondary
  • Thyroid Neoplasms* / pathology
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon*

Substances

  • Iodine Radioisotopes