Adrenal masses of varied etiology: anatomical and molecular imaging features on PET-CT.
A wide spectrum of benign and malignant diseases can present as an adrenal mass. Combined PET-CT is useful for evaluation of adrenocortical and adrenomedullary masses. F-FDG has been extensively used as PET radiotracer for this purpose. F-FDOPA PET, Ga-DOTA peptide (Ga-DOTANOC/TATE) PET, and C-HED PET have also been used for imaging of adrenal medullary lesions, whereas C-MTO PET has been used for adrenocortical imaging. We provide a review of imaging characteristics of adrenal gland pathologies on PET-CT using different tracers.
From the Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Punit
P
Sharma
Harmandeep
H
Singh
Varun Singh
VS
Dhull
Sudhir
S
Suman KC
Abhishek
A
Kumar
Chandrasekhar
C
Bal
Rakesh
R
Kumar
D000310:Adrenal Gland Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology; D003287:Contrast Media; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D057054:Molecular Imaging; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D009942:Organometallic Compounds; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
C504894:68Ga-DOTANOC; D003287:Contrast Media; D009942:Organometallic Compounds; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18