Strongly Radioiodine-Positive Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma Mimicking Metastasis of Differentiated Thyroid Cancer

Diagnostics (Basel). 2022 Aug 11;12(8):1934. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics12081934.

Abstract

We present an interesting image of a strikingly intense radioiodine accumulation of a histologically proven pancreatic adenocarcinoma mimicking metastasis of differentiated thyroid cancer in a 63-year-old woman with recurrence of papillary thyroid carcinoma undergoing radioiodine therapy. This interesting image should draw attention to considering pancreatic adenocarcinoma in radioiodine-positive pancreatic lesions.

Keywords: iodine-131; pancreatic adenocarcinoma; radioiodine therapy; scintigraphy; thyroid carcinoma.

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