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Intraoperative Scintigraphy With Portable Gamma Camera for the Localization of Interaortocaval Paraganglioma

Raquel Alfonso-ballesterAnaïs Moscardó-navarroJoaquín Ortega-serranoLeticia Pérez-santiagoNorberto Cassinello-fernándezRafael Díaz-expósito

subject

Prior SurgerySingle Photon Emission Computed Tomography Computed TomographyAdolescentmedicine.diagnostic_testbusiness.industryGeneral MedicineScintigraphymedicine.diseaselaw.inventionParagangliomaLesionRare tumorParagangliomalawmedicineHumansFemaleGamma CamerasRadiology Nuclear Medicine and imagingmedicine.symptomRadionuclide ImagingNuclear medicinebusinessGamma camera

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A 15-year-old adolescent girl diagnosed of interaortocaval paraganglioma with a positive 123I-MIGB SPECT/CT and 1 unsuccessful prior surgery was operated on with the assistance of a handheld gamma camera. Once the lesion was located and removed, 2 images were taken, one of the surgical field (without 123I-MIGB uptake) and another of the tumor ex vivo (with high 123I-MIGB uptake), confirming that the lesion had been satisfactorily excised. This case highlights the use of a portable gamma camera as a useful tool to locate this rare tumor, with a SPECT/CT positive for 123I-MIGB and a difficult anatomical location suspected.

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2021-06-30Clinical Nuclear Medicine
https://doi.org/10.1097/rlu.0000000000003717