title: Pheochromocytoma presenting with remote bony recurrence twenty years after initial surgery: detection with 68Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT.
abstract: Pheochromocytomas are rare tumors which can be malignant in 10% of cases. We present the case of a 75-year-old woman who presented with headache and palpitation for 1 year. She had a past history of right adrenalectomy for pheochromocytoma 20 years back. In between, the patient was asymptomatic. Twenty-four-hour urinary vanillylmandelic acid was raised. Noncontrast CT and ultrasound of abdomen were unremarkable. The patient underwent 68Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT that showed metastasis to left ilium, which was confirmed on biopsy.
authors: From the Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical sciences, New Delhi, India.
authors: Girish Kumar
authors: GK
authors: Parida
authors: Varun Singh
authors: VS
authors: Dhull
authors: Punit
authors: P
authors: Sharma
authors: Chandrasekhar
authors: C
authors: Bal
authors: Rakesh
authors: R
authors: Kumar
mesh_terms: D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D009942:Organometallic Compounds; D010673:Pheochromocytoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D012008:Recurrence; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: C504894:68Ga-DOTANOC; D009942:Organometallic Compounds