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Lung or liver: An imaging dilemma on Tc-99m macroaggregated albumin lung perfusion scintigraphy
We present a 10-year-old boy having the bronchiectasis who was subjected to lung perfusion scintigraphy before lung resection surgery to assess the lung parenchymal function. It revealed unusual tracer distribution in right upper body that was mimicking to be liver. It was unusual unless there were...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4579630/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26430329 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.164056 |
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author | Jain, Tarun Kumar Phulsunga, Rohit Kumar Kumar, Sunil Sood, Ashwani Bhattacharya, Anish Mittal, Bhagwant Rai |
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description | We present a 10-year-old boy having the bronchiectasis who was subjected to lung perfusion scintigraphy before lung resection surgery to assess the lung parenchymal function. It revealed unusual tracer distribution in right upper body that was mimicking to be liver. It was unusual unless there were some shunts bypassing the lung uptake or faulty radiopharmaceutical preparation. However by bringing down the image window, it became clear that radiopharmaceutical distribution was in thorax only correlating with lung uptake, and not in the liver. Corresponding X-ray chest and computed tomography thorax demonstrated multiple cystic lesions in left lung parenchyma. |
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spelling | pubmed-45796302015-10-01 Lung or liver: An imaging dilemma on Tc-99m macroaggregated albumin lung perfusion scintigraphy Jain, Tarun Kumar Phulsunga, Rohit Kumar Kumar, Sunil Sood, Ashwani Bhattacharya, Anish Mittal, Bhagwant Rai Indian J Nucl Med Interesting Images We present a 10-year-old boy having the bronchiectasis who was subjected to lung perfusion scintigraphy before lung resection surgery to assess the lung parenchymal function. It revealed unusual tracer distribution in right upper body that was mimicking to be liver. It was unusual unless there were some shunts bypassing the lung uptake or faulty radiopharmaceutical preparation. However by bringing down the image window, it became clear that radiopharmaceutical distribution was in thorax only correlating with lung uptake, and not in the liver. Corresponding X-ray chest and computed tomography thorax demonstrated multiple cystic lesions in left lung parenchyma. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4579630/ /pubmed/26430329 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.164056 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms |
spellingShingle | Interesting Images Jain, Tarun Kumar Phulsunga, Rohit Kumar Kumar, Sunil Sood, Ashwani Bhattacharya, Anish Mittal, Bhagwant Rai Lung or liver: An imaging dilemma on Tc-99m macroaggregated albumin lung perfusion scintigraphy |
title | Lung or liver: An imaging dilemma on Tc-99m macroaggregated albumin lung perfusion scintigraphy |
title_full | Lung or liver: An imaging dilemma on Tc-99m macroaggregated albumin lung perfusion scintigraphy |
title_fullStr | Lung or liver: An imaging dilemma on Tc-99m macroaggregated albumin lung perfusion scintigraphy |
title_full_unstemmed | Lung or liver: An imaging dilemma on Tc-99m macroaggregated albumin lung perfusion scintigraphy |
title_short | Lung or liver: An imaging dilemma on Tc-99m macroaggregated albumin lung perfusion scintigraphy |
title_sort | lung or liver: an imaging dilemma on tc-99m macroaggregated albumin lung perfusion scintigraphy |
topic | Interesting Images |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4579630/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26430329 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.164056 |
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