| Literature DB >> 26912984 |
Tarun Kumar Jain1, Rajender Kumar Basher1, Nitin Gupta1, Jaya Shukla1, Shrawan Kumar Singh2, Bhagwant Rai Mittal1.
Abstract
Extraadrenal chromaffin cell-related tumors or paragangliomas are rare, especially in the bladder, accounting for less than 1% of cases. We report a 16-year-old boy who presented with hematuria and paroxysmal headache and was found to have a prostatic growth infiltrating the urinary bladder on anatomical imaging. Iodine-131 ((131)I) metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) whole-body scanning and subsequently gallium-68 ((68)Ga) DOTANOC positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) were performed. The MIBG scan revealed a non-tracer-avid soft-tissue mass, while DOTANOC PET/CT revealed a tracer-avid primary soft-tissue mass involving the urinary bladder and prostate with metastasis to the iliac lymph nodes. He underwent surgical management; histopathology of the surgical specimen revealed a bladder paraganglioma, whereas the prostate was found to be free of tumor.Entities:
Keywords: Bladder paraganglioma; gallium-68 (68Ga) DOTANOC positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET/CT); iodine-131 (131I) metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG)
Year: 2016 PMID: 26912984 PMCID: PMC4729020 DOI: 10.4103/1450-1147.167591
Source DB: PubMed Journal: World J Nucl Med ISSN: 1450-1147