Gallbladder activity on sodium fluoride positron emission tomography/computed tomography bone scan

We incidentally identified gallbladder activity on (18)F sodium fluoride (NaF) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) bone images in five patients. Variable degree of bowel activity is usually seen on NaF PET/CT images, and its mechanism is unknown. Gallbladder activity in our cas...

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Autores principales: Sarikaya, Ismet, Elgazzar, Abdelhamid H., Alfeeli, Mahmoud A., Sarikaya, Ali
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6034551/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30034287
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_45_17
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Sumario:We incidentally identified gallbladder activity on (18)F sodium fluoride (NaF) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) bone images in five patients. Variable degree of bowel activity is usually seen on NaF PET/CT images, and its mechanism is unknown. Gallbladder activity in our cases may indicate that hepatobiliary excretion of the (18)F NaF is the reason for bowel activity on NaF PET/CT images. However, excretion of radiotracer through bowel may also contribute to the bowel activity.

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