Functional imaging of adrenal cortex;

Autores de IIS La Fe

• Stephan Guillermo Prado Wohlwend

  Autor

Grupos

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

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 131I-norcolesterol, 11C-metomidate and 18F-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. © 2020 Sociedad Española de Medicina Nuclear e Imagen Molecular

Keywords

• 19-Iodocholesterol; Adrenal Cortex; Adrenal Gland Diseases; Carbon Radioisotopes; Etomidate; Fluorine Radioisotopes; Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; Humans; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography; Radionuclide Imaging; Radiopharmaceuticals; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; fluorodeoxyglucose f 18; iodine 131; metomidate; carbon; Carbon-11; etomidate; fluorine; Fluorine-18; fluorodeoxyglucose f 18; I-norcholesterol; iodocholesterol; radiopharmaceutical agent; adrenal cortex; Article; differential diagnosis; high resolution computer tomography; human; nuclear magnetic resonance imaging; nuclear medicine; x-ray computed tomography; adrenal cortex; adrenal disease; diagnostic imaging; pathophysiology; physiology; positron emission tomography-computed tomography; procedures; scintiscanning; single photon emission computed tomography