An Unusual False-Positive Uptake of Radioiodine Caused by Breast Implants

[helvella]

Posting this simply to let everyone know!

If the issue applies, make sure you discuss properly with anyone who wants to give you radioactive iodine. I suspect it will be at the obscure end of the scale.

Clin Nucl Med. 2022 Mar 30.

doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000004165. Online ahead of print.

An Unusual False-Positive Uptake of Radioiodine Caused by Breast Implants

Yu Wang 1 , Lisha Jiang, Yangmengyuan Xu, Xinyue Zhang, Bin Liu

Affiliations

• PMID: 35353751

• DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000004165

Abstract

A 40-year-old woman with a history of papillary thyroid cancer underwent ablative 131I therapy. Postablation whole-body 131I scintigraphy revealed not only increased activity in the thyroid bed but also in the anterior part of the chest. SPECT/CT images localized the activity in the bilateral breast implants.

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/353...

[radd]

helvella,

Thank you for posting this important information for those with breast implants and having to decide on having RAI.