Ocular melanoma: detection using iodine-123-iodoamphetamine and SPECT imaging.
Uptake of iodine-123-iodoamphetamine has been demonstrated in malignant melanoma using planar imaging techniques and has been used to detect an ocular melanoma at 12 hr postinjection. Using SPECT technique, an ocular melanoma is identified in a 64-yr-old male at 1 hr postinjection.
Dewey
S H
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Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Leonard
J C
JC
D000662:Amphetamines; D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D020367:Iofetamine; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008875:Middle Aged; D013997:Time Factors; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
D000662:Amphetamines; D007457:Iodine Radioisotopes; D020367:Iofetamine