Less may be as good as more: Feasible and effective method to differentiate gastric uptake solely on planar gallium scan in the era of SPECT/CT
Journal
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
Journal Volume
38
Journal Issue
7
Pages
557-559
Date Issued
2013
Abstract
We presented a patient with abnormal focal accumulation of Ga in the left upper abdomen. After drinking water, we successfully identified the abnormal radioactivity that was from the stomach. Subsequent endoscopic examination did not reveal gastric pathological condition. Gastric accumulation of 67Ga may relate to pathological conditions or physiological uptake, confounding interpretation of 67Ga scintigraphy. Simple water ingestion method can rapidly identify gastric Ga uptake, and the shape of distended stomach can also help to differentiate pathological conditions from physiological uptake, which is especially helpful for a busy nuclear medicine department and for places where the SPECT/CT systems are not available. Copyright ? 2013 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Subjects
67Ga; FDG PET/CT; SPECT/CT; Stomach; Water ingestion
SDGs
Other Subjects
drinking water; gallium 67; adult; ankle pain; article; case report; chronic pain; differential diagnosis; echo planar imaging; erythrocyte sedimentation rate; esophagogastroduodenoscopy; human; leukocyte count; male; radioactivity; shoulder pain; single photon emission computer tomography; stomach lesion; Endoscopy, Digestive System; Feasibility Studies; Gallium Radioisotopes; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Stomach; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Type
journal article