Potential false-positive meckel scan due to displaced kidney caused by recurrent retroperitoneal teratoma
| Autor: | Nai-Ming Cheng, Chien-Cheng Chen, Hui-Chieh Chuang, Chieh Lin, Tzu-Pei Su |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Displaced kidney Kidney Multimodal Imaging Young Adult Medicine Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging False Positive Reactions Retroperitoneal Neoplasms Tomography Emission-Computed Single-Photon Retroperitoneal mass business.industry Teratoma General Medicine Right upper quadrant medicine.disease Meckel Diverticulum medicine.anatomical_structure Abdomen Radiology business Tomography X-Ray Computed |
| Zdroj: | Clinical nuclear medicine. 39(10) |
| ISSN: | 1536-0229 |
| Popis: | We report the findings of a Meckel scan in a 19-year-old patient treated for retroperitoneal teratoma with intermittent tarry stool for 1 month. Two focal stases of radioactivity in the right upper quadrant of the abdomen were noted. SPECT/CT for localization revealed that these 2 foci were within the displaced right kidney along with an adjacent bulky retroperitoneal mass. The patient subsequently underwent surgery, and histopathological studies confirmed recurrent teratoma. Two foci of increased radioactivity instead of 1 may have provided hints for the physiological characteristics of such lesions. |
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