title: Retroperitoneal hemangioma demonstrated on blood pool scan.
abstract: Retroperitoneal hemangioma is a rare but clinically significant condition that can be challenging to diagnose and characterize on anatomical imaging alone. We present a case of an 80-year-old woman with diabetes and hypertension, who was found to have an abdominal mass diagnosed first on CT abdomen and pelvis in March 2011 and demonstrated to be stable on subsequent MRI study performed 16 months later in July 2012. The mass was later confirmed to be a hemangioma on a 99mTc-red cell study.
authors.affiliation: From the Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Montefiore Medical Center and the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University, Bronx, NY.
authors.forename: Muhammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.forename: Leonard M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Freeman
authors.forename: Munish
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chitkara
authors.forename: Kwang J
authors.initials: KJ
authors.lastname: Chun
mesh_terms: D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D015637:Gated Blood-Pool Imaging; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D012186:Retroperitoneal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed