Accidental discovery of lung metastases from differentiated thyroid cancer by 99mTc sodium pertechnetate scan in a patient with secondary hyperparathyroidism

Clin Nucl Med. 2012 Sep;37(9):895-6. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e31825b2011.

Abstract

We present a 75-year-old-man affected by chronic renal failure in whom metastases from differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) were incidentally discovered at TcO4 neck-thorax scan in the setting of a diagnosis of secondary hyperparathyroidism. Ten years before, he had undergone near-total thyroidectomy for a multinodular goiter. Result of the pathological examination was negative for DTC. At our observation, serum thyroglobulin was high in the absence of Tg-Ab, consistent with metastatic disease. Neck ultrasonographynography was negative. The patient underwent I therapy (3700 MBq) after stimulation with recombinant human thyroid-stimulating hormone. Postdose whole-body scan confirmed the metastases already demonstrated by TcO4.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Cell Differentiation*
  • Humans
  • Hyperparathyroidism, Secondary / complications*
  • Incidental Findings*
  • Lung Neoplasms / complications
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Lung Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Male
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m*
  • Thyroid Neoplasms / pathology*

Substances

  • Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m