A hepatobiliary study with Tc-99m N-pyridoxyl-5-methyltryptophan (PMT) in a patient with hepatoblastoma

Clin Nucl Med. 1991 Jan;16(1):10-2. doi: 10.1097/00003072-199101000-00003.

Abstract

A patient with hepatoblastoma in whom a hepatobiliary study with Tc-99m PMT demonstrated homogeneous uptake in the tumor is presented. Sonography showed a large solid mass pedunculated from the right hepatic lobe with a "tumor-in-tumor" pattern. It was hypodense relative to normal hepatic parenchyma on CT scanning without contrast material and turned isodense with contrast material. This represented its hypervascularity, which was confirmed by selective celiac arteriography.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Angiography
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / blood supply
  • Carcinoma, Hepatocellular / diagnostic imaging*
  • Child, Preschool
  • Humans
  • Liver / diagnostic imaging*
  • Liver Neoplasms / blood supply
  • Liver Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Male
  • Organotechnetium Compounds*
  • Radionuclide Imaging
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed
  • Tryptophan / analogs & derivatives*

Substances

  • Organotechnetium Compounds
  • technetium Tc 99m (Sn)-N-pyridoxyl-5-methyltryptophan
  • Tryptophan