title: Extracardiac 'hot' and 'cold' areas on thallium-201 myocardial SPECT imaging.
abstract: A 72-year-old man underwent Persantine 201Tl myocardial SPECT imaging that showed a transient area of extracardiac radiotracer accumulation inferior to the inferior wall of the left cardiac ventricle, and a persistent, rounded, cold area in the liver. CT of the abdomen confirmed a cystic lesion in the liver corresponding to the cold area, and the transient extracardiac tracer accumulation area corresponded to a large aneurysm of the distal descending thoracic aorta. An extracardiac abnormal area of 201Tl localization, 'hot' or 'cold', should be included for scan interpretation to depict thoracic and/or upper abdominal lesions(s).
authors.affiliation: Nuclear Medicine Service, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Lexington, KY.
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Shih
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Stipp
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Magoun
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pulmano
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017545:Aortic Aneurysm, Thoracic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003560:Cysts / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
chemical_list: D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes