A potentially misleading finding at somatostatin receptor scintigraphy: focal pulmonary areas of intense accumulation without computed tomography-detectable lung lesions

J Endocrinol Invest. 2012 Jul;35(7):708-9. doi: 10.1007/BF03345801.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Artifacts*
  • Carcinoid Tumor / diagnostic imaging
  • Carcinoid Tumor / surgery
  • False Positive Reactions
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Indium Radioisotopes
  • Lung / diagnostic imaging*
  • Lung / metabolism*
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung Neoplasms / surgery
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / diagnostic imaging
  • Radionuclide Imaging*
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Receptors, Somatostatin / metabolism*
  • Somatostatin / analogs & derivatives
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Whole Body Imaging

Substances

  • Indium Radioisotopes
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Receptors, Somatostatin
  • Somatostatin
  • pentetreotide