Renal displacement visualized on myocardial scintigram: case report.
Myocardial scinitgrams, using 99mTc-stannous pyrophosphate, showed an acute posterior infarction and an abnormally placed left kidney in a 24-year-old hypertensive man; Further study revealed that the kidney was displaced by a mass later proven to be a pheochromocytoma. The latter was the cause of his hypertension and probably instigated the acute myocardial infarction.
D000328:Adult; D011756:Diphosphates; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000209:etiology; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D010673:Pheochromocytoma / Q000150:complications; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013667:Technetium
D011756:Diphosphates; D013667:Technetium