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ArticleRadiology case reports2011

Positive somatostatin receptor scintigraphy in accessory spleen mimicking recurrent neuroendocrine tumor.

Mustafa Takesh, Christian M Zechmann, Clemens Kratochwil, Hussam Sahli, Majdi Zein

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Article in Radiology case reports, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. [Embryonal malformation suggests malignant tumor in the tail of the pancreas].Der Chirurg; Zeitschrift fur alle Gebiete der operativen Medizen · 2018
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Mustafa Takesh
Christian M Zechmann
Clemens Kratochwil
Hussam Sahli
Majdi Zein

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We report the case of a female patient who had a neuroendocrine tumor in the pancreatic tail. Followup using (68)Ga DOTA-d-Phe(1)-Tyr(3)-octreotide (DOTATOC) positron-emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) detected a round, well-circumscribed nodular mass that exhibited positive somatostatin receptors. This finding was highly suggestive of an accessory spleen; however, due to the slight elevation of the tumor marker, recurrence of the tumor or lymph node metastasis of the endocrine tumor was considered as well. Ultimately, splenic scintigraphy (SS) confirmed an accessory spleen. This case shows the benefit of splenic scintigraphy in excluding a recurrent neuroendocrine tumor by confirming an accessory spleen.

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CT, computed tomographyMRI, magnetic resonance imagingNET, neuroendocrine tumorPET, positron emission tomograpySPECT, single-photon-emission computed tomographySS, splenic scintigraphySSTR, somatostatin receptor

Identifiers

PMID27307913
PMCPMC4900061
OpenAlexW1972267009

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