Soft tissue metastases and lung cancer recurrence detected by Tc-99m depreotide scintigraphy

Clin Nucl Med. 2002 Jun;27(6):410-2. doi: 10.1097/00003072-200206000-00004.

Abstract

A 63-year-old woman with previously treated stage I lung cancer was reexamined 5 years later for recurrence. A conventional work-up using computed tomographic scanning and transbronchial biopsy showed nothing abnormal. A Tc-99m depreotide scan, however, led to a noninvasive diagnosis of lung cancer recurrence with metastases, and it directed a noninvasive tissue diagnosis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma / diagnostic imaging*
  • Adenocarcinoma / drug therapy
  • Adenocarcinoma / radiotherapy
  • Adenocarcinoma / secondary*
  • Bone Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
  • Bone Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Bone Neoplasms / radiotherapy
  • Bone Neoplasms / secondary
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Leg / diagnostic imaging
  • Lung Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Lung Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Lung Neoplasms / pathology
  • Lung Neoplasms / radiotherapy
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / diagnostic imaging*
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / drug therapy
  • Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / radiotherapy
  • Organotechnetium Compounds
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Scapula / diagnostic imaging
  • Soft Tissue Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Soft Tissue Neoplasms / pathology
  • Soft Tissue Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Somatostatin / analogs & derivatives
  • Technetium Tc 99m Medronate
  • Thoracic Vertebrae / diagnostic imaging
  • Whole-Body Counting

Substances

  • Organotechnetium Compounds
  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Somatostatin
  • technetium Tc 99m depreotide
  • Technetium Tc 99m Medronate