| Autor: |
Stoffel M; Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Louvain (UCL), Mont-Godinne, Belgium., Jamar F, Donckier J, Hainaut P, Decoster P, Beckers C, Pauwels S |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
European journal of nuclear medicine [Eur J Nucl Med] 1996 Jun; Vol. 23 (6), pp. 723-6. |
| DOI: |
10.1007/BF00834537 |
| Abstrakt: |
Indium-111 pentetreotide scintigraphy was performed in two patients for the localization of recurrent medullary thyroid carcinoma treated by surgery and external radiotherapy 1 and 10 years earlier. A marked uptake of the radiopharmaceutical was demonstrated in the lung areas that had been irradiated. These cases strongly suggest that this uptake is related to pulmonary fibrosis, a well-known complication of radiotherapy, even long after the irradiation. Therefore, attention must be paid to the avoidance of false-positive interpretation of somatostatin receptor scintigraphy in patients previously treated by radiotherapy. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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