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Axillary iodine-131 accumulation due to perspiration
E J Camponovo1, P F Goyer, E D Silverman
1Division of Nuclear Medicine, Naval Hospital, Bethesda, Maryland 20814.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|October 1, 1989
Abstract:
A case of spurious axillary uptake of I-131 proven to be caused by perspiration is presented. False-positive localizations of radioiodine, both pathologic and physiologic, are reviewed to avoid confusion of these entities with functioning thyroid carcinoma metastases.