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Case Reports
. 1982 Oct 23;285(6349):1153-4.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.285.6349.1153.

Disseminated malignant phaeochromocytoma: localisation with iodine-131-labelled meta-iodobenzylguanidine

H Sutton, P Wyeth, A P Allen, O A Thurtle, T K Hames, M I Cawley, D Ackery
Case Reports

Disseminated malignant phaeochromocytoma: localisation with iodine-131-labelled meta-iodobenzylguanidine

H Sutton et al. Br Med J (Clin Res Ed). .

Abstract

Meta-iodobenzylguanidine, a guanethidine analogue, is a newly synthesised substance capable of imaging the adrenal medulla. In a woman in whom phaeochromocytoma has been diagnosed iodine-131-labelled metaiodobenzylguanidine was given intravenously; gamma-camera images showed bilateral adrenal tumours and uptake corresponding to bone and liver metastases. 131I-meta-iodobenzylguanidine is effective in localising phaeochromocytomas, and the technique is safe, specific, and non-invasive.

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