Functional imaging of adrenal cortex.

Autors de IIS La Fe

• Stephan Guillermo Prado Wohlwend

  Autor

Autors aliens a IIS La Fe

• Grupo de Trabajo de Endocrinología de la SEMNIM

Grups d'Investigació

• Unidad Mixta de Investigación en Endocrinología, Nutrición y Dietética clínica

  Leader

  Juan Francisco Merino Torres

Abstract

The rising number of high-resolution imaging scans has increased the adrenal lesions detection, which require a differential diagnosis. Currently, the most commonly used scans are CT and MRI, but these are sometimes not very specific. In these cases, nuclear medicine scans with 131 I-norcolesterol, 11 C-metomidate and 18 F-fludeoxyglucose help to differentiate benign vs. malignant lesions, to lateralize the involvement in hypersecretion disease, as well as to guide the therapeutic strategy in both unilateral and bilateral lesions.

Keywords

• (18)F-FDG PET/CT, (18)F-FDG PET/TC, Adrenal cortex, Adrenal incidentaloma, Corteza adrenal, Hiperaldosteronismo, Hipercortisolismo, Hyperaldosteronism, Hypercortisolism, Incidentaloma adrenal, NP59