UCLA DEPARTMENT OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE REPORT

DATE: 11/10/2005

TECHNIQUE: Images of the body extending from the top of the head to the upper thighs were obtained [...] days following the oral ingestion of [3] millicuries of Sodium Iodine-131.

COMPARISON: None 

CLINICAL HISTORY: The patient is a [...]-year-old [fe]male with a history of [...]. The patient is now referred for evaluation of recurrence or metastatic disease.

FINDINGS:

Normal Iodine accumulation is noted in the salivary glands and stomach.  No abnormal Iodine activity is identified.

Unchanged focus of increased tracer activity in the mid-anterior neck.  The liver demonstrates mild homogeneous tracer uptake with no discreet focus. No other abnormal activity is identified. 

Physiologic tracer activity is seen salivary glands, in the urinary bladder as well in as the remainder of the head, neck, chest, abdomen and pelvis.  

CONCLUSIONS: 

Normal study demonstrating no evidence of recurrent iodine avid carcinoma or of metastatic disease.

No evidence for functioning thyroid or tumor tissue. 

No evidence of distant metastasis. 

Unchanged focus of increased tracer activity in the mid-anterior neck, consistent with residual thyroid tissue/cancer.  

Thank you for referring this patient to the UCLA Nuclear Medicine Clinic. 

I, [...], M.D., Ph.D., have reviewed this nuclear medicine study personally, and am in full agreement with the findings of the report presented here.