Resolution of massive technetium-99m methylene diphosphonate uptake in the stomach in vitamin D intoxication.
Vitamin D intoxication, which may result from zealous intake of health food supplements, may cause metastatic calcification. This is the first reported case of a patient with vitamin D intoxication who had massive gastric uptake of [99mTc]MDP, but no lung uptake, with histologic documentation of the metastatic calcification by gastric biopsy. It is probable that the metastatic calcification was a highly metabolic process in this patient since the gastric uptake resolved within 3 wk when serum calcium and phosphate had returned to normal.
D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002762:Cholecalciferol / Q000097:blood / Q000506:poisoning*; D005260:Female; D005753:Gastric Mucosa / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D006934:Hypercalcemia / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008875:Middle Aged; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D013670:Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m / Q000378:metabolism; D013270:Stomach / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013272:Stomach Diseases / Q000139:chemically induced / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate
D002762:Cholecalciferol; D013670:Sodium Pertechnetate Tc 99m; D013669:Technetium Tc 99m Medronate