The effect of catecholamines on the glucose uptake in brown adipose tissue demonstrated by 18F-FDG PET/CT in a patient with adrenal pheochromocytoma

A 50-year-old man had the diagnosis of right adrenal pheochromocytoma made by computed tomography (CT) scan together with the evidence of raised plasma catecholamine and urinary catecholamine metabolite levels. A positron emission tomography (PET)/CT study with 18Ffluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) demonstrat...

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Published inEuropean journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging Vol. 35; no. 2; pp. 446 - 447
Main Authors Yamaga, Lilian Yuri Itaya, Thom, Anneliese Fischer, Wagner, Jairo, Baroni, Ronaldo Hueb, Hidal, Jairo Tabacow, Funari, Marcelo Gusmão
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 01.02.2008
Springer Nature B.V
Subjects
Adrenal glands
Body fat
Cancer
Cardiology
Case studies
Image of the Month
Imaging
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Metabolism
Nuclear Medicine
Oncology
Orthopedics
Radiology
Tomography
Adrenergic Innervation
Adrenal Pheochromocytoma
Catecholamine
Brown Adipose Tissue
Positron Emission Tomography
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Summary:A 50-year-old man had the diagnosis of right adrenal pheochromocytoma made by computed tomography (CT) scan together with the evidence of raised plasma catecholamine and urinary catecholamine metabolite levels. A positron emission tomography (PET)/CT study with 18Ffluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) demonstrated intense, bilateral, and symmetric uptake in brown adipose tissue (BAT) in the neck, supraclavicular, axillary, mediastinal, paravertebral, and perinephric regions and also in the right adrenal gland.
ISSN:1619-7070
1619-7089
DOI:10.1007/s00259-007-0538-7