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Merkel cell carcinoma and iodine-131 metaiodobenzylguanidine scan
A Castagnoli1, G Biti, M T De Cristofaro
1Dipartimento di Fisiopatologia Clinica, Università degli Studi, Firenze, Italy.
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
Two cases of Merkel cell carcinoma, a neuroendocrine neoplasia of the skin, investigated with iodine-131 metaiodobenzylguanidine (131I-mIBG) scintigraphy, are reported. Uptake in the tumor was evident only in 1 case. The possible diagnostic and therapeutic role of 131I-mIBG in patients with this rare neoplasm is discussed.