Indium-111 pentetreotide scintigraphy was performed in two patients for the localization of recurrent medullary thyroid carcinoma treated by surgery and external radiotherapy 1 and 10 years earlier. A marked uptake of the radiopharmaceutical was demonstrated in the lung areas that had been irradiated. These cases strongly suggest that this uptake is related to pulmonary fibrosis, a well-known complication of radiotherapy, even long after the irradiation. Therefore, attention must be paid to the avoidance of false-positive interpretation of somatostatin receptor scintigraphy in patients previously treated by radiotherapy.
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