Case Report Open Access
Volume 1 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/casereports.1.001
Thymoma as an Incidental Finding in a Myocardial Perfusion Study with 99mTc-MIBI
Juan Carlos Ramirez Fontalvo1, Iván Fabricio Vega González2, Nikolai Strusberg Fernández1, Juan Carlos Ramirez Yepes2, Óscar Alejandro Osorio Echeverry2, Luz Kelly Anzola Fuentes3,*
- 1Post Graduate Program in Nuclear Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Sanitas, Bogota, Colombia
- 2Nuclear Medicine Department, Clinica Las Americas- Medellín, Colombia
- 3Director of Post Graduate Program in Nuclear Medicine, Fundación Universitaria Sanitas, Bogota, Colombia
Corresponding Author
Luz Kelly Anzola Fuentes, lkanzola@gmail.com
Received Date: August 13, 2019
Accepted Date: September 24, 2019
Yepes JCR, González IFV, Fernández NS, Fontalvo JCR, Echeverry OAO, Fuentes LKA. Thymoma as an Incidental Finding in a Myocardial Perfusion Study with 99mTc-MIBI. Arch Med Case Rep. 2019; 1(1):1-4
Copyright: © 2019 Yepes JCR, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Myocardial perfusion imaging is a nuclear medicine imaging technique that allows to make an approach to the coronary condition in patients with moderate probability to have coronary artery disease. 99mTc MIBI myocardial perfusion is one of the most common techniques in nuclear medicine clinical practice. Extracardiac accumulation of the tracer is relatively common, and can be seen in certain tumors with high metabolic rate, due to the radiotracer’s mitochondrial preference. We present a case report of an unusual finding in a myocardial perfusion scan related to an abnormal uptake of the radiotracer in a mediastinal mass which was consistent with thymoma.
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