Localization of technetium-99m pertechnetate in peripheral nerve tumors.
Technetium-99m pertechnetate scintigraphy in three patients with pathologically proven peripheral nerve tumors (six in total) demonstrated its ability to assess accurately the size, location, and the extent of all lesions. Pertechnetate localized only in areas of abnormal nerve involvement and all lesions were better seen in delayed images than the earlier ones. Pertechnetate imaging appears to be a promising method of noninvasive evaluation of clinically evident and occult tumors of peripheral nerve origin.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009442:Neurilemmoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D009455:Neurofibroma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D010524:Peripheral Nervous System Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013670:Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed
D013670:Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m