The MIBG scan has a high specificity and positive predictive value (100%). It confirms the presence of pheochromocytoma in 21 cases (42%), even if the metanephrine is normal in a patient with a ...

Quint LE, Glazer GM, Francis IR, et al. Pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma: comparison of MR imaging with CT and I-131 MIBG scintagraphy. Radiology . 1987;165:89-93. Sawka A, et al.

Moreover, CT scans, gallium dotatate scans (a procedure to detect areas of the body where cells are dividing rapidly), an MIBG scan (a procedure used to find neuroendocrine tumor), an MRI, PET scans, ...

In the described case patient, residual tissue of the pheochromocytoma after the first surgery was difficult to detect owing to an apparent lack of correlation between 123 I-MIBG and MRI–CT scans.

In some hospitals, instead of an MIBG scan, you may have a DOTATATE PET scan. This helps to diagnose phaeochromocytoma and to see if it has spread. ... Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma H Neumann, WF ...

The FDA in July approved the treatment as the first and only FDA-approved radiopharmaceutical indicated for the treatment of pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma, two ultra-rare cancers.

If a mass was found by CT, then mIBG scintigraphy (for a mass >2 cm) or MRI (for a mass <2 cm), should be performed next, regardless of whether such a lesion was a paraganglioma or a pheochromocytoma.

The radiotherapeutic drug, approved on Monday afternoon to treat life-threatening neuroendocrine cancers pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma, will roll out with a sticker of roughly $147,000 for ...

This patient’s adrenal MRI scan was highly suggestive of a pheochromocytoma with a high signal intensity (hyperintense compared to liver) on T2 weighted images. 123-I-MIBG is taken up into the ...