title: A solitary large radioiodine accumulative lung lesion in high-dose 131i therapeutic scan: bronchial atresia with mucocele.
abstract: We reported a large radioiodine accumulative lung lesion on I therapeutic whole-body scan performed in a 50-year-old woman for thyroid cancer ablation therapy. Previously, her chest radiography and contrast-enhanced chest CT images showed bronchial atresia in the left upper lobar bronchus and mucus-filled dilated distal bronchus. Bronchial mucocele was confirmed by CT-guided percutaneous transthoracic needle aspiration. Bronchial atresia is a rare congenital abnormality associated with the mucocele.
authors: From the Departments of *Nuclear Medicine and †Pathology, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, Bucheon, South Korea.
authors: Won Hyoung
authors: WH
authors: Lee
authors: Jung Mi
authors: JM
authors: Park
authors: Jeong Ja
authors: JJ
authors: Kwak
mesh_terms: D001980:Bronchi / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000532:radiotherapy; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes / Q000627:therapeutic use; D008875:Middle Aged; D009078:Mucocele / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals / Q000627:therapeutic use; D000077273:Thyroid Cancer, Papillary; D013964:Thyroid Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals