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A false-positive I-131 whole-body scan in chronic parotitis: a case report
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ajou University School of Medicine, Suwon, Korea.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|May 16, 2001
Abstract:
Although I-131 whole-body scanning is a useful method to evaluate and manage well-differentiated thyroid cancer, several causes of false-positive findings require careful evaluation. The authors describe a case of benign parotitis mimicking metastasis on an I-131 whole-body scan.