Abstract
An uptake of iodine 131 was casually discovered in the precordial region of a patient with a thyroid cancer and corresponded to a pleuropericardial cyst.
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Francese, C., Schlumberger, M., Travagli, J.P. et al. Iodine 131 uptake in a pleuropericardial cyst: case report of a false-positive radioiodine total body scan result in a patient with a thyroid cancer. Eur J Nucl Med 18, 779–780 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00956720
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