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The single palpable thyroid nodule. Evaluation by 99m Tc‐pertechnetate imaging
Author(s) -
Alderson Philip O.,
Sumner Hatton W.,
Siegel Barry A.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(197601)37:1<258::aid-cncr2820370135>3.0.co;2-x
Subject(s) - medicine , pertechnetate , nodule (geology) , thyroid , thyroid cancer , nuclear medicine , radiology , technetium , pathology , paleontology , biology
The role of 99m Tc‐pertechnetate thyroid imaging in the preoperative assessment of patients with single palpable thyroid nodules was evaluated. The frequency of cancer in hypofunctional nodules was similar to that found in previous studies with 131 I. The 99m Tc‐pertechnetate image allowed a reliable separation of pathologically uninodular thyroids from those that were multi‐nodular, and demonstrated multiple thyroid lesions that had not been detected by physical examination in over one‐third of the cases. The frequency of cancer in thyroids containing a solitary or dominant hypofunctional nodule was higher (17%) than that in thyroids with a multinodular scan appearance (less than 5%).