PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Piyush Aggarwal
AU  - Rajkumar Kottayasamy Seenivasagam
AU  - Ashwani Sood
AU  - Sarika Prashar
AU  - Piyush Pathak
AU  - Naresh Sachdeva
AU  - Parikshaa Gupta
TI  - Radioactive iodine uptake in post-operative seroma: a cause for false positivity
AID  - 10.2967/jnmt.122.264569
DP  - 2022 Nov 01
TA  - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology
PG  - jnmt.122.264569
4099  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/early/2022/11/09/jnmt.122.264569.short
4100  - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/early/2022/11/09/jnmt.122.264569.full
AB  - Besides the known physiological uptake of 131I, literature describes various false-positive findings on 131I scans in benign lesions, inflammation, traumatic sites, and post-surgical sites to name a few. However, no study to the best of our knowledge has shown the false-positive uptake of 131I in a post-operative seroma at the post-surgical site