SHI Wei, ZHANG Yingjian, JIANG Changying. Evaluation of 99mTc-MIBI imaging for thyroid carcinoma in follow-up and postoperative study[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2000, (11): 809-811.
SHI Wei, ZHANG Yingjian, JIANG Changying. Evaluation of 99mTc-MIBI imaging for thyroid carcinoma in follow-up and postoperative study[J]. Nuclear techniques, 2000, (11): 809-811.DOI:
The aim of this study was to evaluate the value of 99mTc-MIBI imaging in 46 cases of thyroid masses (18 malignant
28 benign and 24 cases of postoperative relapse or metastatic thyroid cancer. Results showed that radioactivity filling in primary cancer lesion was observed in 14 out of 18 thyroid carcinoma
whereas only 9 out of 28 in benign lesions
99mTc-MIBI imaging was positive in 19 out of 24 patients with postoperative relapse or lymph nods metastases. Its positivity was signicantly higher than
131I imaging
thereby 99mTc-MIBI imaging was highly valuable in detecting early thyroid carcinoma
especially
in finding cot distant metastases and postoperative relapse.