کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
2864984 1573194 2010 4 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Positron Emission Tomography With 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Is a Useful Tool for the Diagnosis of Pheochromocytomas Without Distant Metastasis, Where Malignancy Is Suspected on the Basis of Histopathologic Analysis
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی کاردیولوژی و پزشکی قلب و عروق
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Positron Emission Tomography With 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Is a Useful Tool for the Diagnosis of Pheochromocytomas Without Distant Metastasis, Where Malignancy Is Suspected on the Basis of Histopathologic Analysis
چکیده انگلیسی
A 69-year-old woman, who had been undergoing treatment for hypertension, was admitted to the hospital for the evaluation of a tumor in the right adrenal gland and of episodic hypertension. She was diagnosed with pheochromocytoma on the basis of elevated urine catecholamine and metabolite concentrations and positron emission tomography (PET) results; however, the results of 131I-metaiodobenzylguanidine (131I-MIBG) scintigraphy were negative. The patient underwent laparoscopic right adrenalectomy. Malignancy was suspected on the basis of histopathologic studies. After surgery, the elevated catecholamine and metabolite concentrations and the blood pressure returned to normal; furthermore, the symptoms, including severe headache, reduced. The authors report a case of pheochromocytoma that was suspected to be malignant on the basis of histopathologic analysis and was detected by 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-PET but not by MIBG. Thus, FDG-PET may be a prognostic marker for malignant pheochromocytomas with or without metastasis.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: The American Journal of the Medical Sciences - Volume 340, Issue 2, August 2010, Pages 160-163
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