Intense and prolonged Tl-201 accumulation in a slow growing bronchioloalveolar carcinoma.
Thallium-201 SPECT was performed to evaluate a pulmonary lesion in a 73-year-old male which had been considered to be an inflammatory lesion for two years. The lesion has slowly increased in size on x-CT. Tl-201 was intensely taken up and retained in the lesion, suggesting a malignant lesion. Histological examination revealed that the lesion was bronchioloalveolar carcinoma. This case suggested that Tl-201 uptake of pulmonary carcinoma would not be necessarily related to cell growth rate.
Kinuya
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Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Ishikawa, Japan.
Takahashi
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S
Saito
M
M
Tofuku
Y
Y
Michigishi
T
T
Tonami
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N
D002282:Adenocarcinoma, Bronchiolo-Alveolar / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D002455:Cell Division; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic; D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes / Q000493:pharmacokinetics*; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / Q000379:methods*
D013794:Thallium Radioisotopes