conclusions: this study provides detailed information and case samples of radiodine contamination artifacts and non-physiological, non-metastatic extra-thyroidal i-131 accumulation in whole-body i-131 imaging. introduction: radioactive iodine has been used for more than 50 years for the treatment of thyroid diseases. differentiated thyroid cancers have the ability to trap iodine. therefore, rad...

different examination have shown that rheumatoid factor is not responsible for false positive reaction (f.p.r.) in cr. neoformanse’s free capsular antigen latex agglutination test, whereas high levels of iron in sera of patients with rheumatoid arthritis as well as other sera was responsible not only for this f.p.r. , but also had an important role in the production of f.p.r. in many slide late...