Incrustation and uptake of skeletal imaging agent in transitional cell carcinoma.

Taniguchi, M; Tatsuta, N; Yokota, H; Ouguchi, M; Higashi, K; Okimura, T; Yamamoto, I · J Nucl Med · 1997

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

We present a case of transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder visualized by 99mTc-HMDP bone scintigraphy and suggest possible uptake mechanisms. Pelvic CT demonstrated a sessile bladder tumor with punctate and curvilinear calcifications on the surface areas (incrustation). Technetium-99m-HMDP bone scintigraphy demonstrated intense uptake corresponding to the site of the bladder tumor. Chemisorption of urinary 99mTc-HMDP, rather than of blood-born 99mTc-HMDP, may have occurred at the tumor surface.

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