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Clinical nuclear medicine · Apr 2004
Preoperative scintigraphic visualization of an orbital metastasis before identification of carcinoma in a nonfunctioning thyroid nodule.
- Sami Boughattas, Habib Khochtali, Nadia Arifa, Maryem Degdegui, Habib Hassine, Ali Bakir, and Habib Essabbah.
- Department of Nuclear Medicine, Sahloul's Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia. BOUGHATTASSAMI@netscape.net
- Clin Nucl Med. 2004 Apr 1; 29 (4): 249-50.
AbstractPreoperative accumulation of Tc-99m pertechnetate and radioiodine in metastases of well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma is uncommon. The authors report the case of a 51-year-old woman with follicular thyroid carcinoma revealed by a right orbital metastasis. I-131 scintigraphy performed before thyroidectomy showed intense uptake in an orbital metastasis despite the presence of an intact thyroid gland.
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