Detection of Thymoma on 99mTc MIBI Scintigraphy: Revisiting the Past

Although thymoma is a rare tumor, it is the most common anterior mediastinal tumor, usually affecting the adults in their fifth and sixth decade. We present a case of 68-year-old man with history of myocardial infarction, who presented to the cardiology OPD with recent onset of exertional dyspnea. O...

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Autores principales: Parida, Girish Kumar, Roy, Shambo Guha, Sharma, Anshul, Patel, Chetan D.
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5317074/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28242989
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.198484
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Roy, Shambo Guha
Sharma, Anshul
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description Although thymoma is a rare tumor, it is the most common anterior mediastinal tumor, usually affecting the adults in their fifth and sixth decade. We present a case of 68-year-old man with history of myocardial infarction, who presented to the cardiology OPD with recent onset of exertional dyspnea. On 99mTc MIBI myocardial perfusion SPECT, there was an extra cardiac accumulation of radiotracer in the anterior mediastinum just above the heart, which later was diagnosed as thymoma on histopathology.
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spelling pubmed-53170742017-02-27 Detection of Thymoma on 99mTc MIBI Scintigraphy: Revisiting the Past Parida, Girish Kumar Roy, Shambo Guha Sharma, Anshul Patel, Chetan D. Indian J Nucl Med Interesting Image Although thymoma is a rare tumor, it is the most common anterior mediastinal tumor, usually affecting the adults in their fifth and sixth decade. We present a case of 68-year-old man with history of myocardial infarction, who presented to the cardiology OPD with recent onset of exertional dyspnea. On 99mTc MIBI myocardial perfusion SPECT, there was an extra cardiac accumulation of radiotracer in the anterior mediastinum just above the heart, which later was diagnosed as thymoma on histopathology. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5317074/ /pubmed/28242989 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.198484 Text en Copyright: © 2017 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.
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Detection of Thymoma on 99mTc MIBI Scintigraphy: Revisiting the Past
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title_full Detection of Thymoma on 99mTc MIBI Scintigraphy: Revisiting the Past
title_fullStr Detection of Thymoma on 99mTc MIBI Scintigraphy: Revisiting the Past
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title_short Detection of Thymoma on 99mTc MIBI Scintigraphy: Revisiting the Past
title_sort detection of thymoma on 99mtc mibi scintigraphy: revisiting the past
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5317074/
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