PMC4900061_01
59-year-old woman with accessory spleen. DOTATOC-PET/CT after intravenous injection of 206 MBq 68Ga DOTATOC; the axial and coronal planes show an increased focal uptake that corresponds with a nodular lesion (diameter, 15 mm) in the left upper abdominal region (arrows).
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However, somatostatin receptor scintigraphy using 68Ga DOTATOC-PET/CT showed a positive uptake in a round mass in the upper left abdominal region (Fig. 1).
59-year-old woman with accessory spleen. Splenic scintigraphy using 99mTc-tagged heat-damaged red-blood-cell scintigraphy, Scintigraphic image (left) and SPECT/CT fused image (right) demonstrate an uptake in the round nodule (arrows) that already exhibited a significant uptake of 68Ga-DOTATOC, confirming the diagnosis of accessory spleen.
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It demonstrated the ability of the described round mass to accumulate 99mTc-tagged heat-damaged red blood cells, which is a characteristic of splenic tissue (Fig. 2).