Incidental Diagnosis of a Brown Tumor Mimicking Bone and Lung Metastasis during a Parathyroid Scintigraphy
- Resource Type
- Authors
- F. Fokoue; N. Abaouz; Sanae El Mselmi; Nadia Ismaili Alaoui
- Source
- Advances in Molecular Imaging. 10:7-13
- Subject
- Hyperparathyroidism
medicine.medical_specialty
Lung
endocrine system diseases
business.industry
Thyroid
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Brown tumor
medicine.anatomical_structure
Parathyroid scintigraphy
medicine
Radiology
business
Technetium-99m
Ectopic parathyroid adenoma
Fixation (histology)
- Language
- ISSN
- 2161-6752
2161-6728
We report herein a case of a 40-year-old male patient with chronic renal failure presenting a severe hyperparathyroidism with an elevation of parathormone level evaluated in nuclear medicine department for MIBI-Technetium-99m parathyroid scintigraphy. The parathyroid scintigraphy revealed the appearance of a preferential fixation of the MIBI-99mTc opposite the lower left pole of the thyroid and opposite the upper part of the right hemi thorax. A subsequent single-photon emission computed tomography-computed tomography focused on the cervico-thoracic region was performed and showed an ectopic parathyroid adenoma associated with an incidental brown tumor mimicking bone and lung metastases. Our case report confirms the usefulness of additional hybrid SPECT-CT imaging in the management of hyperparathyroidism.