Breast uptake on a myocardial perfusion scan

Cristina Cuaresma Morales; Angelin Fragante Apostol

doi:10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_35_20

Breast uptake on a myocardial perfusion scan

World J Nucl Med. 2020 Sep 14;20(1):105-108. doi: 10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_35_20. eCollection 2021 Jan-Mar.

Authors

Cristina Cuaresma Morales¹, Angelin Fragante Apostol^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Nuclear Medicine Division, Philippine Heart Center, Quezon City, Philippines.
² Nuclear Medicine Section, Lung Center of the Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines, Quezon City, Philippines.

Abstract

A 42-year-old female underwent a myocardial perfusion scan (MPS) for the evaluation of coronary artery disease. Raw and cine loop images hinted at abnormal tracer accumulation in the chest. Review of short-axis slices and low-dose computed tomography images taken for attenuation correction and their subsequent fusion confirmed the presence of focal tracer uptake localized to nodular breast masses. This case demonstrates that despite MPS not being optimized to detect breast pathologies, careful inspection of unprocessed images and the application of available software for fusion can help detect concurrent pathology.

Keywords: Breast; incidental findings; myocardial perfusion scan; technetium-99m sestamibi.

Publication types

Case Reports