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Visualization of ocular melanoma with N-isopropyl-p-[123I]-iodoamphetamine
1Department of Nuclear Medicine and Ophthalmology, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan.
Abstract:
In a patient with ocular melanoma, scintigraphy with N-isopropyl-p-[123I]-iodoamphetamine [( 123I]IMP) clearly delineated the histologically proven ocular lesion. In a tissue distribution study, using the resected specimen, a significantly high accumulation of the radioactivity was confirmed in tumor tissue. Thus, [123I]IMP scintigraphy provided specific localization of an ocular melanoma.