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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 preoperative111In pentetreotide allowed accurate surgical localization of the tumour tissue.
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Waddington, W.A., Kettle, A.G., Heddle, R.M. et al. Intraoperative localization of recurrent medullary carcinoma of the thyroid using indium-111 pentetreotide and a nuclear surgical probe. Eur J Nucl Med 21, 363–364 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00947974
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