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.

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.

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