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. 2017 Jul-Sep;32(3):235-236.
doi: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_5_17.

Ectopic Parathyroid Incidentaloma on Tc99m SestaMIBI Myocardial Perfusion Imaging

Rola Aatif Hasan Hussain  1 , Ammar Mohammed Saeed Ali  1 , K Manivannan  1 , S K Chirala  1
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Ectopic Parathyroid Incidentaloma on Tc99m SestaMIBI Myocardial Perfusion Imaging

Rola Aatif Hasan Hussain et al. Indian J Nucl Med. 2017 Jul-Sep.

Abstract

Parathyroid incidentalomas are generally discovered during thyroid surgery.[1] In the present case, the ectopic parathyroid adenoma was discovered as an incidentaloma in a clinical setting, during the course of clinical evaluation of atypical chest pain by gastroenterology and cardiology.

Keywords: Ectopic parathyroid adenoma; myocardial perfusion imaging; parathyroid incidentaloma.

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Figure 1
99mTc sestaMIBI MPI GSPECT projection images
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Figure 2
99mTc sestaMIBI dual-phase scintigraphy
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Figure 3
CT scan chest ectopic parathyroid adenoma
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