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R W Ware

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PubMed1992

Thallium-201 accumulation by epidermoid inclusion cyst.

An elderly male undergoing re-evaluation for coronary artery disease demonstrated an extra-cardiac focus of 201Tl accumulation during the performance of a planar myocardial perfusion scan. This corresponded to a subcutaneous lesion of the left posterior thorax found on a concurrent computerized axial tomographic (CAT) scan and upon surgical excision proved to be an "epidermoid inclusion cyst." A follow-up nuclear scan failed to reveal any residual extracardiac tracer localization. Confusing this lesion with metastatic deposits during 201Tl neoplastic evaluations can be avoided by examination of the adjacent integument.

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PubMed1982

Treatment of medullary carcinoma of the thyroid with I-131.

We present a patient with radioiodine concentration in pulmonary metastases presumably arising from medullary carcinoma of the thyroid. Transient symptomatic improvement occurred after treatment with a large dose of sodium iodide (I-131). Although radioiodine concentration in medullary carcinoma of the thyroid is rare, the findings in this patient and in other recent reports suggest that an attempt should be made to determine whether a medullary carcinoma concentrates radioiodine. If so, I-131 treatment might be beneficial.

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