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Scintigraphic Identification of Gastric Tissue in a Mediastinal Mass |
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Published in | Clinical nuclear medicine. 2016, vol. 41, no. 3, p. 207-8 | |
Abstract | We present a Tc pertechnetate scintigraphy performed in a 64-year-old woman to investigate a mediastinal cystic mass in search of residual gastric mucosa after gastrectomy. She had a history of esophagectomy and gastric pull-up for esophageal cancer. Postoperative leakage necessitated ablation of the gastric pull-up and reconstruction using part of the colon. Oral realimentation resulted in mediastinal pain and brownish discharge within the trachea, raising the suspicion of residual gastric pouch. SPECT/CT demonstrated increased tracer uptake in the median part of the mediastinal cyst, and a biopsy confirmed the presence gastric mucosa. | |
Keywords | Esophageal Neoplasms/surgery — Esophagectomy/adverse effects — Female — Gastric Mucosa/pathology/radionuclide imaging — Humans — Mediastinal Cyst/etiology/pathology/radionuclide imaging — Middle Aged — Multimodal Imaging — Radiopharmaceuticals — Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m — Tomography — Emission-Computed — Single-Photon — X-Ray Computed | |
Identifiers | PMID: 26571450 | |
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Research groups | Groupe Dulguerov Pavel (ORL et chirurgie cervico-faciale) (145) Imagerie per-opératoire multi-modalité en radiologie interventionnelle (949) Laboratoire de neuroimagerie et de traceurs moléculaires innovants (984) | |
Citation (ISO format) | MAINTA, Ismini C et al. Scintigraphic Identification of Gastric Tissue in a Mediastinal Mass. In: Clinical nuclear medicine, 2016, vol. 41, n° 3, p. 207-8. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000001078 https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:90648 |