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Preoperative localization of parathyroid carcinoma using Tc-99m MIBI
M T Kitapçi1, G Tastekin, M Turgut
1Hacettepe University Medical Faculty, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|March 1, 1993
Abstract:
A patient with parathyroid cancer is presented who underwent Tc-99m MIBI scintigraphy. The Tc-99m MIBI image demonstrated increased accumulation of activity at the lower pole of the left thyroid lobe which was later confirmed as a parathyroid cancer. Uptake by parathyroid cancer must be kept in mind as a cause of increased Tc-99m MIBI accumulation when a disease is in question in the thyroid or parathyroid gland.