BARC/PUB/2014/1507

 
 

99mTc HYNIC-TOC imaging and 177Lu DOTA-octreotate treatment in non-iodine-concentrating dedifferentiated thyroid carcinoma metastases: an unusual alternative diagnosis

 
     
 
Author(s)

Basu, S.; Joshi, A.
(RMC)

Source

Clinical Nuclear Medicine, 2014. Vol. 39 (7): pp. 632-634

ABSTRACT

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.

 
 
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