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Colloid liver SPECT of hepatic alveolar echinococcosis

Authors :
Ryusuke Futatsuya
Naoto Watanabe
Tetsuya Kamei
Masashi Shimizu
Masanari Kageyama
Masao Kakishita
Hikaru Seto
Source :
Annals of Nuclear Medicine. 7:277-279
Publication Year :
1993
Publisher :
Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 1993.

Abstract

Seventy-one-year-old man had a liver mass. He lived in Hokkaido, where there is an epidemic of hydatic disease. Abdominal US image showed an echogenic mass. CT revealed a low density mass with an unclear margin. A 99mTc-Sulfur colloid liver SPECT study was performed to detect the liver mass. The SPECT scan was done after intravenous administration of 5 mCi of 99mTc-sulfur colloid, and it revealed a lack of uptake in the liver mass. The liver SPECT findings were correlated with subsequent CT and US imaging. Echo-guided biopsy showed a PAS-positive cuticle layer of echinococcosis in the necrotic tissue. This is the first report of a case of detection of hepatic alveolar echinococcosis by means of a colloid liver SPECT imaging procedure.

Details

ISSN :
18646433 and 09147187
Volume :
7
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Annals of Nuclear Medicine
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....3193f21c413bacc7a571769cc5d54d09
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03164711