Pitfall of I-131 whole body scan: a mucinous adenocarcinoma of the ovary
- Resource Type
- Authors
- H. Hammami; A. Sellem; Issam Msakni; Wassim Elajmi
- Source
- Pan African Medical Journal; Vol. 36 No. 1 (2020)
The Pan African Medical Journal
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
false positive
medicine.diagnostic_test
business.industry
medicine.medical_treatment
Thyroidectomy
Ovary
Case Report
General Medicine
mucinous adenocarcinoma
medicine.disease
Scintigraphy
Thyroid cancer
Thyroid carcinoma
radioiodine
medicine.anatomical_structure
ovary
medicine
Adenocarcinoma
Abdomen
Radiology
business
Pelvis
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1937-8688
False positive radioiodine uptake following thyroidectomy for differentiated thyroid cancer has been reported in some cases. A 57-year-old female patient was referred for ablative radioiodine treatment four weeks after undergoing total thyroidectomy for papillary thyroid carcinoma. Posttherapeutic I-131 scintigraphy showed uptake in the neck and large focus in the lower abdomen and pelvis. Pathology revealed a mucinous adenocarcinoma of the right ovary.