False-positive somatostatin receptor scintigraphy due to an accessory spleen.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
A patient with previous left caudal pancreatectomy and splenectomy presented with Zollinger-Ellison syndrome. Abdominal CT and endoscopic ultrasonography revealed a mass in the splenic area. Somatostatin receptor scintigraphy showed a nodular increase of the uptake corresponding to the lesion detected with conventional imaging. A second laparotomy was performed and the mass was resected. Histological analysis showed that the nodular lesion was an accessory spleen. Since physiologic uptake of 111In-pentetreotide is seen in the spleen, an accessory spleen mimicking a tumor, specially after previous splenectomy, may result in false-positive somatostatin receptor scintigraphy.
Medical subject headings
- Indium Radioisotopes
- Receptors, Somatostatin
- Somatostatin
- Spleen
- Zollinger-Ellison Syndrome