I-123 MIBG Scintigraphy and 68Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT Negative But F-18 DOPA PET/CT Positive Pheochromocytoma
- 1 February 2011
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in Clinical Nuclear Medicine
- Vol. 36 (2), 124-126
- https://doi.org/10.1097/rlu.0b013e318203bc4f
Abstract
We observed a 34-year-old man who was incidentally found to have an adrenal mass during surgical follow-up for perforated ulcer. The patient was subjected to I-123 MIBG scintigraphy, 68Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT, and F-18 DOPA PET/CT. Only F-18 DOPA PET/CT showed evidence of an avid adrenal mass. A CT-guided biopsy was performed and it was suggestive for pheochromocytoma. He underwent surgery and a pheochromocytoma, about 40 mm in diameter, was detected. Traditionally, I-123 MIBG scintigraphy has been used in detecting chromaffin cell tumors, but more recently it had been demonstrated that a certain part of pheochromocytoma could be false-negative on scintigraphy.Keywords
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