A Case of Radioactive Iodine Uptake Found in Artificial Eye

Clin Nucl Med. 2019 Apr;44(4):317-318. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002486.

Abstract

Radioactive iodine (RAI) therapy is widely used as an adjunctive treatment in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer. Although I has high avidity in the functioning thyroid, and in differentiated thyroid cancer lesions, physiological and nonspecific uptake of I in healthy or benign tissue may contribute to false-positive findings on an I scan. Here, we present an interesting image of RAI uptake in the eye region post-RAI treatment, which has been identified as tear contamination in the artificial eye.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Biological Transport
  • Eye, Artificial*
  • Humans
  • Iodine Radioisotopes / metabolism*
  • Iodine Radioisotopes / therapeutic use
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Thyroid Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Thyroid Neoplasms / metabolism
  • Thyroid Neoplasms / radiotherapy

Substances

  • Iodine Radioisotopes
  • Iodine-131