Diagnosis of Bone Metastasis due to Medullary Thyroid Cancer With 99mTc‐ (V) DMSA SPECT Imaging

Esmaeil Gharepapagh, Jalil Houshyar, Farzad Farajbakhsh Mamaghani, Mahsa Karbasi, Sahar Rezaei · 2024

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Esmaeil Gharepapagh and colleagues wrote a short imaging report in 2024 on medullary thyroid cancer. That cancer can spread beyond the thyroid, including to bone. Finding spread early guides treatment choices. The report covers a tracer scan method using SPECT imaging. Full PET and CT scanning is not available everywhere. The authors argue the tracer scan can fill that gap. It can hunt for possible spread, above all in bone. The search is worth doing even without pain or other warning signs, they say.

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CREATOREsmaeil Gharepapagh, Jalil Houshyar, Farzad Farajbakhsh Mamaghani, Mahsa Karbasi, Sahar Rezaei
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE13 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11655177

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