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Humayun Bashir1, Carolina Pina1, Liviu Stanisor1
1Department of Nuclear Medicine.
Abstract:
A 57-year-old male was imaged with 123I mIBG for left sided suprarenal mass. The planar and SPECT-CT acquisitions revealed features consistent with a left sided pheochromocytoma. There was physiological and high uptake in the hypertrophied left lobe of the liver which was normal at both MRI and non-contrast CT. Asymmetrical increased 123I mIBG uptake in the left lobe of the liver as compared to the right lobe is a known physiological finding with no obvious cause or significance.
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