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ArticleNagoya journal of medical science2020

Unexpected radioactive iodine accumulation on whole-body scan after I-131 ablation therapy for differentiated thyroid cancer.

Shingo Iwano, Shinji Ito, Shinichiro Kamiya, Rintaro Ito, Katsuhiko Kato, Shinji Naganawa

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Article in Nagoya journal of medical science, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Dosing Therapeutic Radiopharmaceuticals in Obese Patients.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  3. Optimal Time of Diagnostic and Posttherapeutic Iodine-131 Whole-body Scan in Post-Operative Pediatric and Young Adult Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Patients.Indian journal of nuclear medicine : IJNM : the official journal of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, India
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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shingo IwanoDepartment of Radiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Shinji ItoDepartment of Radiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Shinichiro KamiyaDepartment of Radiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Rintaro ItoDepartment of Radiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Katsuhiko KatoDepartment of Radiological and Medical Laboratory Sciences, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Shinji NaganawaDepartment of Radiology, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Nagoya, Japan.
Nagoya University · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We retrospectively evaluated the frequency of unexpected accumulation of radioactive iodine on the post-therapy whole-body scan (Rx-WBS) after radioactive iodine (RAI) ablation therapy in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC). We searched our institutional database for Rx-WBSs of DTC patients who underwent RAI ablation or adjuvant therapy between 2012 and 2019. Patients with distant metastasis diagnosed by CT or PET/CT before therapy, and those had previously received RAI therapy were excluded. In total, 293 patients (201 female and 92 male, median age 54 years) were selected. Two nuclear medicine physicians interpreted the Rx-WBS images by determining the visual intensity of radioiodine uptake by the thyroid bed, cervical and mediastinal lymph nodes, lungs, and bone. Clinical features of the patients with and without the metastatic accumulation were compared by chi-square test and median test. Logistic regression analyses were performed to compare the association between the presence of metastatic accumulation and these clinical factors. Eighty-four of 293 patients (28.7%) showed metastatic accumulation. Patients with metastatic RAI accumulation showed a significantly higher frequency of pathological N1 (pN1) and serum thyroglobulin (Tg) > 1.5 ng/ml under TSH stimulation (p = 0.035 and p = 0.031, respectively). Logistic regression analysis indicated that a serum Tg > 1.5 ng/ml was significantly correlated with the presence of metastatic accumulation (odds ratio = 1.985; p = 0.033). In conclusion, Patients with Tg > 1.5 ng/ml were more likely to show metastatic accumulation. In addition, the presence of lymph node metastasis at the initial thyroid surgery was also associated with this unexpected metastatic accumulation.

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Adenocarcinoma, FollicularAdultAgedBone NeoplasmsFemaleHumansIodine RadioisotopesLung NeoplasmsLymph NodesMaleMediastinumMiddle AgedNeckNeoplasm StagingRadionuclide ImagingRetrospective StudiesIodine-131Iodine Radioisotopesablationdifferentiated thyroid cancerlymph node metastasisradioactive iodineSPECT/CT

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PMID32581401
PMCPMC7276407
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