Gallium-avid painless thyroiditis in a patient with AIDS.
Intense thyroidal Ga-67 accumulation was seen in a man with AIDS imaged for suspected Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia. Concurrent Tc-99m pertechnetate thyroid scanning demonstrated absent trapping, helping establish the diagnosis of painless thyroiditis. Occult hyperthyroidism, and not pulmonary infection, may have been responsible for the patient's original presenting symptoms.
Achong
D M
DM
Department of Radiology, New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts 02111.
Snow
K J
KJ
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011020:Pneumonia, Pneumocystis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013670:Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m; D013968:Thyroiditis, Subacute / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes; D013670:Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m