The value of 99mTc
HYNIC-TOC scintigraphy clarifying skeletal and hepatic-predominant
metastatic disease in a 55-year-old woman (diagnosed earlier to have
papillary carcinoma thyroid and had undergone total thyroidectomy and
radioiodine ablation) is illustrated. The whole-body radioiodine scan
and battery of serum tumor markers were normal. Multiple metastatic foci
in the liver and skeleton were 99mTc HYNIC-TOC avid. Serum
chromogranin A level was substantially elevated (1771.60 ng/mL). This
represents an unusual alternative diagnosis signified by a highly
positive scan in the setting of apparent non Yiodine-concentrating
metastatic disease in a patient of differentiated thyroid carcinoma.