Bilateral Adrenal Extremely Intense Metabolic Activity on 18F-FDG PET/CT in a Patient With Pheochromocytomas.

Chen X, Chen G1, Fu Z, Li Q2.

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1

Department of Neurology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou.

2

Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

Abstract

Bilateral adrenal masses were found by ultrasound on a 55-year-old man with sudden onset of chest distress and palpitation after drinking alcohol. After the negative laboratory tests of plasma catecholamine and urinary vanillylmandelic acid, the F-FDG PET/CT revealed extremely intense metabolic activity in the bilateral adrenal lesions, and the subsequent I-meta-iodobenzylguanidine scintigraphy also showed increased radioactivity in the lesions. The pathology of surgery confirmed the diagnosis of bilateral pheochromocytomas.

PMID:

 

31107752

 

DOI:

 

10.1097/RLU.0000000000002624

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