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  • Impact Factor: 2.709**
  • H-Index: 11 
  • ISSN: 2474-1663
  • DOI: 10.25107/2474-1663
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Major Scope

  •  Carcinomas
  •  Radiation Oncology
  •  Prostate Cancer
  •  Brain and Spinal Cord Cancer
  •  Ovarian Cancer
  •  Lung Cancers
  •  Colorectal Cancer
  •  Gynecological Cancers

Abstract

Citation: Clin Oncol. 2017;2(1):1328.DOI: 10.25107/2474-1663.1328

A Shrapnel Fragment Deposited 45 Years ago Caused a False Positive Rai Uptake in the Spine in a Patient with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: A Review of Mechanism and Literature

Sing-Yung Wu, Mark D Chambers, Mazhar U Khan and William L Green

Department of Radiology and Nuclear, V A Medical Center, University of California, USA
Department of Medicine, University of Washington, USA

*Correspondance to: Sing-Yung Wu 

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Abstract:

Radioiodine total body scan is used to detect recurrent differentiated thyroid cancer in neck and metastatic lesions. We recently encounter a case of false positive in a veteran who suffered from shrapnel wound 45 years ago in the back.

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Wu S-Y, Chambers MD, Khan MU, Green WL. A Shrapnel Fragment Deposited 45 Years ago Caused a False Positive Rai Uptake in the Spine in a Patient with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma: A Review of Mechanism and Literature. Clin Oncol. 2017; 2: 1328.

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