Ping Zhang1, Zhijun Liu. 1. Department of Otolaryngology, Wuhan General Hospital of Guangzhou Military Command, Wuhan, 430070, China.
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To explore a noninvasive, effective and preoperative method of diagnosis for nasopharyngeal angiofibroma. METHOD: The craniocervical examination oncotropic by 99mTc-MIBI imaging was performed in 3 patients with nasopharyngeal angiofibroma. RESULT: Early 99mTc-MIBI imaging was weakly positive and late its imaging was radioactively defective in 3 cases of nasopharyngeal angiofibroma. 99mTc-MIBI imaging of the angiofibroma was significantly different from that of malignant and benign tumors. CONCLUSION: 99mTc-MIBI oncotropic imaging is of qualitatively diagnostic value for nasopharyngeal angiofibroma before operation, because 99mTc-MIBI imaging was of certain features.
OBJECTIVE: To explore a noninvasive, effective and preoperative method of diagnosis for nasopharyngeal angiofibroma. METHOD: The craniocervical examination oncotropic by 99mTc-MIBI imaging was performed in 3 patients with nasopharyngeal angiofibroma. RESULT: Early 99mTc-MIBI imaging was weakly positive and late its imaging was radioactively defective in 3 cases of nasopharyngeal angiofibroma. 99mTc-MIBI imaging of the angiofibroma was significantly different from that of malignant and benign tumors. CONCLUSION:99mTc-MIBI oncotropic imaging is of qualitatively diagnostic value for nasopharyngeal angiofibroma before operation, because 99mTc-MIBI imaging was of certain features.