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Technetium-99m-pentavalent dimercaptosuccinic acid uptake in Hurthle cell tumor of the thyroid
E Vergara1, S Lastoria, P Varrella
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Istituto Nazionale Tumori Fondazione Pascale, Naples, Italy.
Journal of Nuclear Biology and Medicine (Turin, Italy : 1991)
|June 1, 1993
Abstract:
In a patient with metastatic Hurthle cell carcinoma of the thyroid, a subgroup of follicular carcinoma, scintigraphy with pentavalent 99mTc-labeled dimercaptosuccinic acid (V)DMSA showed a significant uptake of the radiopharmaceutical in all tumor sites. We suggest that the accumulation of 99mTc-(V)DMSA within metastases of Hurthle cell thyroid tumor may have a useful role in the staging of these patients, especially when radioiodine fails to concentrate.