[99mTc-MIBI imaging of nasopharyngeal angiofibroma].
OBJECTIVE
To explore a noninvasive, effective and preoperative method of diagnosis for nasopharyngeal angiofibroma.


METHODS
The craniocervical examination oncotropic by 99mTc-MIBI imaging was performed in 3 patients with nasopharyngeal angiofibroma.


RESULTS
Early 99mTc-MIBI imaging was weakly positive and late its imaging was radioactively defective in 3 cases of nasopharyngeal angiofibroma. 99mTc-MIBI imaging of the angiofibroma was significantly different from that of malignant and benign tumors.


CONCLUSIONS
99mTc-MIBI oncotropic imaging is of qualitatively diagnostic value for nasopharyngeal angiofibroma before operation, because 99mTc-MIBI imaging was of certain features.
Zhang
Ping
P
Department of Otolaryngology, Wuhan General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command, Wuhan, 430070, China.
Liu
Zhijun
Z
D000293:Adolescent; D018322:Angiofibroma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D017256:Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D017256:Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi