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Coexistence of a nonfunctioning thyroid nodule in Plummer's disease demonstrated by thallium-201 imaging
Y Ichiya1, T Nakashima, R Gunasekera
1Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|February 1, 1988
Abstract:
A patient with Plummer's disease in whom a coexisting nonfunctioning thyroid nodule was detected by TI-201 imaging is presented. I-123 imaging revealed a hot nodule corresponding to the functioning nodule and little uptake in the rest of the thyroid. In contrast, two areas of abnormalities were noted on a TI-201 image: one corresponded to the hot nodule in I-123 imaging and the other was visualized in the suppressed part of the thyroid in the same lobe. This case revealed that TI-201 imaging is clinically useful in detecting coexisting nodules in the suppressed part of the thyroid.