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Intraoperative localization of recurrent medullary carcinoma of the thyroid using indium-111 pentetreotide and a
W A Waddington1, A G Kettle, R M Heddle
1Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College London Medical School, UK.
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine
|April 1, 1994
Abstract:
A patient with recurrent medullary thyroid cancer in the neck in whom previous surgery for recurrence had been undertaken with only partial success had the diseased tissue localized preoperatively by indium-111 pentetreotide. Scanning with technetium-99m V dimercaptosuccinic acid and iodine-123 metaiodobenzylguanidine failed to localize the tumor. Utilization of a nuclear surgical probe after preoperative 111In pentetreotide allowed accurate surgical localization of the tumour tissue.