ea0063gp88 | Thyroid Nodules and Cancer | ECE2019
Iyidir Ozlem Turhan
, Buyukaşık Pırıl
, Mwinyi Adam Rajab
, Aktas Ayse
, Gencoglu Arzu
, Tutuncu Neslihan Bascil
Introduction: Radioiodine can be used for the ablation/treatment and imaging of thyroid cancer. However, radioiodine uptake is not specific for thyroid tissue. Iodine-131 can show physiologic accumulation in several organs as breast, thymus, liver and gastrointestinal tract, or in benign conditions, such as cysts and inflammation, or in a variety of benign and malignant non-thyroidal tumors, which could be mistaken for thyroid cancer or cancer metastasis. Here we aimed to eval...