Autonomously functioning thyroid nodule treated with radioactive iodine and later diagnosed as papillary thyroid cancer

Mehmet Uludag, Gurkan Yetkin, Bulent Citgez, Adnan Isgor, Tulay Basak

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The malignancy risk is low in hot thyroid nodules verified by scintigraphy. We present a rare case of papillary carcinoma, initially treated as an autonomous hot nodule. Case report. A 36-year old male patient with a hot thyroid nodule and subclinical hyperthyroidism was treated with 10mCi 131I.