Heat-Damaged Red Blood Cell Scintigraphy in Helping Interpretation of 68Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT

Clin Nucl Med. 2019 Nov;44(11):927-928. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002730.

Abstract

Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT was performed to determine the cause of endogenous Cushing syndrome in a 10-year-old boy whose MRI studies did not reveal pituitary or adrenal gland abnormality. The PET/CT images demonstrated an intense activity in a small soft tissue nodule in the left upper abdomen where splenules are commonly located. Heat-damaged Tc-labeled red blood cell imaging showed that this soft tissue nodule did not have increased red blood cell activity, which indicated that this lesion was a true somatostatin receptor-rich lesion. The pathology result following surgical resection of the lesion confirmed adrenocorticotropic hormone-producing neuroendocrine tumor.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Child
  • Erythrocytes / pathology*
  • Hot Temperature*
  • Humans
  • Image Interpretation, Computer-Assisted*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Neuroendocrine Tumors / blood
  • Neuroendocrine Tumors / diagnostic imaging
  • Neuroendocrine Tumors / metabolism
  • Neuroendocrine Tumors / pathology
  • Organometallic Compounds*
  • Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography*
  • Receptors, Somatostatin / metabolism

Substances

  • Organometallic Compounds
  • Receptors, Somatostatin
  • gallium Ga 68 dotatate