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A patient with two thyroid papillary carcinomas demonstrating hot and cold lesions on 123I thyroid scintigraphy

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A 44-year-old euthyroid woman had two palpable nodules in the thyroid gland. 123I thyroid scintigraphy showed a hot nodule in the right lobe and a cold one in the left lobe. Total thyroidectomy was performed, and histopathologic examination revealed that both tumors contained papillary carcinoma. Thus, hot nodules on a thyroid scintigram with 123I do not necessarily preclude malignancy.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Takamatsu Red Cross Hospital, Kagawa, Japan

    Kanji Kasagi

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan

    Takashi Misaki, Yasuhiro Iida & Junji Konishi

  3. Department of Radiology, Hikone Municipal Hospital, 2-1-45 Honmachi, 522-8539, Hikone, Shiga, Japan

    Masahiro Iwata

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Iwata, M., Kasagi, K., Misaki, T. et al. A patient with two thyroid papillary carcinomas demonstrating hot and cold lesions on 123I thyroid scintigraphy. Ann Nucl Med 16, 355–358 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02988621

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