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  • Title: False-positive whole-body iodine-131 scan due to intrahepatic duct dilatation.
    Author: You DL, Tzen KY, Chen JF, Kao PF, Tsai MF.
    Journal: J Nucl Med; 1997 Dec; 38(12):1977-9. PubMed ID: 9430480.
    Abstract:
    Focal retention of radioactivity in the liver on whole-body 131I scan was interpreted as a metastatic lesion in a patient with well-differentiated thyroid cancer. Intrahepatic duct dilatation, usually resulting from biliary tract obstruction by bile stone, is a common disorder and may cause bile stasis. A patient with papillary thyroid cancer and a previous history of biliary tract stones had focal retention of radioactivity in the liver on whole-body 131I scan. Abdominal CT, endoscopic retrograde cholagiopancreatography, radionuclide cholangiography and sequential 131I scans demonstrated that this focal retention of radioactivity was caused by intrahepatic duct dilatation. Focal retention of radioactivity is visualized on delayed images but not on early images. The radioactivity initially increases and then decreases on following days.
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