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Gall Bladder Activity on Technetium99m-Ethylenedicysteine Renogram Masquerading as Ectopic Kidney

(99m)Tc-EC (Technetium-99m-ethylenedicysteine) is a renal tubular imaging agent introduced as an alternative to (99m)Tc-MAG3 (Technetium-99m-mercaptoacetyltriglycine) (1). This radiopharmaceutical can be easily labeled at room temperature and has high radiochemical purity and long stability for at l...

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Autores principales: Aka, Sailaja, Moulika, J Sai, Mohan, VS Krishna, Priya, R Ramya, Manthri, Ranadheer, Kalawat, TC
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6352639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30713384
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_100_18
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author Aka, Sailaja
Moulika, J Sai
Mohan, VS Krishna
Priya, R Ramya
Manthri, Ranadheer
Kalawat, TC
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Moulika, J Sai
Mohan, VS Krishna
Priya, R Ramya
Manthri, Ranadheer
Kalawat, TC
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description (99m)Tc-EC (Technetium-99m-ethylenedicysteine) is a renal tubular imaging agent introduced as an alternative to (99m)Tc-MAG3 (Technetium-99m-mercaptoacetyltriglycine) (1). This radiopharmaceutical can be easily labeled at room temperature and has high radiochemical purity and long stability for at least 8 h. Within 1 h 70% of (99m)Tc-EC is excreted in the urine (2). (99m)Tc-EC provides the same Scintigraphic information as (99m)Tc-MAG3. The Hepato biliary excretion of (99m)Tc-EC is very low and usually does not affect image interpretation on routine imaging, the possibility of visualization of the gall bladder should be kept in mind while reporting the 99mTc-EC renogram (1). We present a case of (99m)Tc-EC renogram, a suspected case of hypoplastic/ectopic right kidney, to look for ectopic kidney. In this case, there was unexpected visualization of gallbladder in delayed images. We herewith present this case, so that physician should be careful while reporting (99m)Tc-EC renogram, as there may be chances for gall bladder to be masquerading as Ectopic kidney.
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spelling pubmed-63526392019-02-01 Gall Bladder Activity on Technetium99m-Ethylenedicysteine Renogram Masquerading as Ectopic Kidney Aka, Sailaja Moulika, J Sai Mohan, VS Krishna Priya, R Ramya Manthri, Ranadheer Kalawat, TC Indian J Nucl Med Case Report (99m)Tc-EC (Technetium-99m-ethylenedicysteine) is a renal tubular imaging agent introduced as an alternative to (99m)Tc-MAG3 (Technetium-99m-mercaptoacetyltriglycine) (1). This radiopharmaceutical can be easily labeled at room temperature and has high radiochemical purity and long stability for at least 8 h. Within 1 h 70% of (99m)Tc-EC is excreted in the urine (2). (99m)Tc-EC provides the same Scintigraphic information as (99m)Tc-MAG3. The Hepato biliary excretion of (99m)Tc-EC is very low and usually does not affect image interpretation on routine imaging, the possibility of visualization of the gall bladder should be kept in mind while reporting the 99mTc-EC renogram (1). We present a case of (99m)Tc-EC renogram, a suspected case of hypoplastic/ectopic right kidney, to look for ectopic kidney. In this case, there was unexpected visualization of gallbladder in delayed images. We herewith present this case, so that physician should be careful while reporting (99m)Tc-EC renogram, as there may be chances for gall bladder to be masquerading as Ectopic kidney. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6352639/ /pubmed/30713384 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_100_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Aka, Sailaja
Moulika, J Sai
Mohan, VS Krishna
Priya, R Ramya
Manthri, Ranadheer
Kalawat, TC
Gall Bladder Activity on Technetium99m-Ethylenedicysteine Renogram Masquerading as Ectopic Kidney
title Gall Bladder Activity on Technetium99m-Ethylenedicysteine Renogram Masquerading as Ectopic Kidney
title_full Gall Bladder Activity on Technetium99m-Ethylenedicysteine Renogram Masquerading as Ectopic Kidney
title_fullStr Gall Bladder Activity on Technetium99m-Ethylenedicysteine Renogram Masquerading as Ectopic Kidney
title_full_unstemmed Gall Bladder Activity on Technetium99m-Ethylenedicysteine Renogram Masquerading as Ectopic Kidney
title_short Gall Bladder Activity on Technetium99m-Ethylenedicysteine Renogram Masquerading as Ectopic Kidney
title_sort gall bladder activity on technetium99m-ethylenedicysteine renogram masquerading as ectopic kidney
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6352639/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30713384
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_100_18
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