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Failure of MIBG scan to detect metastases in SDHB-mutated pediatric metastatic pheochromocytoma.
Pediatric blood & cancer - 1 Nov 2017
Sait Sameer, Pandit-Taskar Neeta, Modak Shakeel
Abstract excerpt
123 I-meta-iodo benzyl guanidine (MIBG) scans are considered the gold standard imaging in neuroblastoma; however, flouro deoxy glucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) scans have increased sensitivity in adults with pheochromocytoma/paraganglioma. We describe a pediatric patient initially considered to have localized neuroblastoma based on anatomical imaging and 123 I-MIBG scan, but subsequent...
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