title: Visualization of an Incidental Ectopic Gallbladder Location on 99mTc-MIBI Myocardial Perfusion Imaging With SPECT/CT.
abstract: An ectopically located gallbladder is rare and unusual. In this study, we described a case of a 52-year-old woman who underwent SPECT-myocardial perfusion imaging because of exertional dyspnea and chest tightness. The rest sinograms reveal 2 substantially increased tracer uptakes in the right chest. Subsequently, a SPECT/CT scan was performed to clarify the indeterminate findings on the SPECT-myocardial perfusion imaging. The coregistered SPECT/CT images depict intense focal activity in the right chest, which corresponds to the gallbladder on the CT scan, thus explaining the peculiar ectopic gallbladder finding.
authors.affiliation: From the *Department of Nuclear Medicine, Show Chwan Memorial Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan; †Department of Nuclear Medicine, Chang-Bing Show Chwan Memorial Hospital, Changhua, Taiwan; and ‡Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Po-Nien
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Hou
authors.forename: Cheng-Kai
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Jay
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D004065:Digestive System Abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D005704:Gallbladder / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D008875:Middle Aged; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D055414:Myocardial Perfusion Imaging; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D017256:Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D017256:Technetium Tc 99m Sestamibi