Falso negativo de la gammagrafía con 99mTc-sestamibi en un carcinoma paratiroideo con tumores pardos asociados. Aportaciones de la PET/TAC-18F-FDG
- A. Santiago
- Carlos Ramos Font
- M.A. Muros de Fuentes
- M.M. Navarro-Pelayo Láinez
- Héctor Palacios Gerona
- Manuel Moreno Caballero
- José Manuel Llamas Elvira
ISSN: 0212-6982
Year of publication: 2011
Volume: 30
Issue: 3
Pages: 174-179
Type: Article
More publications in: Revista española de medicina nuclear
Abstract
Parathyroid carcinoma (PTC) is a rare malignant disease that is usually hyperfunctioning, which produces an excess of parathyroid hormone. Hyperparathyroidism causes bone metabolism disorders, as osteopenia and sometimes brown tumors. Brown tumors are benign but locally aggressive bone lesions, whose differential diagnosis with metastases or other primary malignancies may be complicated. 99mTc-Sestamibi scan is the usual procedure for the detection of parathyroid pathology, with a sensitivity of 85�100% and specificity close to 100% in parathyroid adenomas, it having similar percentages in the detection of PTC. We present the case of a patient diagnosed of a malignant hyperparathyroidism associated with bone lesions in which the 99mTc-Sestamibi scan showed a false negative result in the detection of parathyroid condition. However, 18F-FDG-PET/CT detected the PTC and helped in the differential diagnosis of associated bone lesions, which were finally confirmed as brown tumors.