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Thyroid imaging in a typical case of acute suppurative thyroiditis with abscess formation due to infection from a persistent thyroglossal duct

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The clinical evaluation of thyroid imaging with99mTc,201T1, and67Ga in the uncommon, but potentially serious, disorder of acute suppurative thyroiditis (AST) with abscess formation due to infection from a persistent thyroglossal duct is reported. The99mTc image showed functioning areas of the diseased thyroid gland and the201Tl image demonstrated abscess formation in the thyroid gland of this patient. In addition, marked67Ga accumulation was demonstrated in a wide area covering not only the area of the thyroid gland involved, but also associated circumferential inflammatory lesions in a patient with AST. The net thyroid uptake of67Ga at 72 hours was calculated to be 13.8% of the injected dose.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, 1-1, Mukogawacho, Nishinomiya, 663, Hyogo, Japan

    Masahiro Kawanaka, Yoshinori Sugimoto, Mitsuko Suehiro & Minoru Fukuchi

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Kawanaka, M., Sugimoto, Y., Suehiro, M. et al. Thyroid imaging in a typical case of acute suppurative thyroiditis with abscess formation due to infection from a persistent thyroglossal duct. Ann Nucl Med 8, 159–162 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03165022

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