title: Octreotide uptake in parathyroid adenoma.
abstract: The patient with a history of bone pain and muscle weakness, was thought to have oncogenic osteomalacia as a result of biochemical investigations and directed to Nuclear Medicine Department for a whole-body bone scintigraphy and 111In-octreotide scintigraphy. There was no focal pathologic tracer uptake, but generalized marked increase in skeletal uptake on bone scintigraphy. Octreotide scintigraphy showed accumulation of octreotide in the region of the left lobe of the thyroid gland in the neck. Thereafter, parathyroid scintigraphy was performed with technetium-99m labeled metroxy-isobutyl-isonitryl (99mTc-MIB) and MIBI scan demonstrated radiotracer uptake at the same location with octreotide scintigraphy. The patient underwent left inferior parathyroidectomy and histopathology confirmed a parathyroid adenoma. Somatostatin receptor positive parathyroid adenoma may show octreotide uptake. Octreotide scintigraphy may be promising and indicate a possibility of using somatostatin analogues for the medical treatment of somatostatin receptor positive Conflict of interest:None declared.
authors.affiliation: Bozok University School of Medicine, Nuclear Medicine Department of, Yozgat, Turkey.
authors.forename: Seyhan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Karaçavuş
authors.forename: Mustafa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kula
authors.forename: Züleyha
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Cihan Karaca
authors.forename: Kürşad
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Unlühızarcı
authors.forename: Ahmet
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tutuş
authors.forename: Fahri
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Bayram
authors.forename: Ganime
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Coban
keywords: Parathyroid adenoma; indium-111-octreotide; somatostatin