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Elevated iodine uptake at autogenous bone graft harvest sites
Jigang Yang1, Ion Codreanu, Sabah Servaes
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Beijing Friendship Hospital of Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|August 15, 2012
Summary
Radioablative therapy for papillary thyroid carcinoma can show unexpected iodine uptake in old bone graft sites. This finding in a mandible and fibula bone graft should not be mistaken for metastatic disease.
Area of Science:
- Nuclear Medicine
- Oncology
- Surgical Oncology
Background:
- Papillary thyroid carcinoma treatment often involves radioablative therapy with iodine-131.
- Postsurgical radioiodine scans are crucial for detecting residual thyroid tissue or metastases.

