Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Radioiodine ablation with a whole-body scan is a well known therapeutic regimen for differentiated thyroid cancer. I-131 uptake in the breast has been described with a variety of normal and pathologic conditions such as gynecomastia, supernumerary breasts, fibroadenoma and lactational duct cyst or galactocele. Here we report a case with an incidental radioiodine uptake in breast who turned out to be breast cancer.Case report: A 70 years old...

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...