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Detection for Residual Thyroid Tissue and Metastatic Lesion after Total Thyroidectomy in Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: Comparison between Tc-99m Pertechnetate Sean and High Dose I-131 Therapy Sean  

Lee, Joo-Ryung (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Kyungpook National University Medical School)
Ahn, Byeong-Cheol (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Kyungpook National University Medical School)
Jeong, Shin-Young (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Kyungpook National University Medical School)
Lee, Jae-Tae (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Kyungpook National University Medical School)
Lee, Kyu-Bo (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kyungpook National University Hospital, Kyungpook National University Medical School)
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The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine / v.37, no.2, 2003 , pp. 120-127 More about this Journal
Abstract
Purpose: To evaluate diagnostic sensitivity of nuclear imaging in the detection of residual thyroid tissue and metastatic lesion, we have compared neck scintigrams with Tc-99m pertechnetate (Tc-99m scan) and high dose I-131 iodide (I-131 scan) in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer. Subjects and Methods: One hundred thirty-five thyroidectomized patients for differentiated thyroid cancer were enrolled in this study. Twenty-three had a previous history of radioiodine therapy. Planar and pin-hole images of anterior neck with Tc-99m were acquired at 20 minutes after injection, followed by I-131 scan three days after high-dose radioiodine therapy within 7 days interval. Patients were asked to discontinue thyroid hormone replacement more than 4 weeks. Results: All subjects were in hypothyroid state. Seventy out of 135 patients (51.9%) showed concordant findings between Tc-99m and I-131 scans. I-131 scan showed higher number of uptake foci in all of 65 patients showing discordant finding. Tc-99m scan showed no thyroid bed uptake in 34 patients, whereas 23 of them (67.6%) showed bed uptake in I-131 scan. Tc-99m scan did not show any uptake in thyroid bed in 11 of 112 patients without previous history of radioiodine therapy, but 9 of them showed bed uptake in I-131 scan. Tc-99m scan showed no bed uptake in all of the 23 patients with previous history of radioiodine therapy, in contrast 14 of them (60.9%) showed bed uptake in I-131 scan. Conclusion: These results suggest that Tc-99m scan has poor detectability for residual thyroid tissue or metastatic lesion in thyroidectomized differentiated thyroid cancer patients, compared to high dose I-131 therapy scan. Tc-99m scan could not detect any remnant tissue or metastatic lesion in patients with previous history of radioiodine treatment, especially.
Keywords
Tc-99m pertechnetate scan; I-131 iodide scan; thyroid cancer; thyroid remnant; metastasis;
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