Image in endocrinology: Localization of an occult adrenocorticotropin-secreting carcinoid tumor with somatostatin receptor scintigraphy using single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomographic image scanning

J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2006 Sep;91(9):3271-2. doi: 10.1210/jc.2005-1989. Epub 2006 May 16.

Authors

C Waintrop¹, F Tenenbaum, J Coulot, O Vignaux, C Blanchet, P Legmann, B Richard, X Bertagna

Affiliation

¹ Service de Médecine Nucléaire, Hôpital Cochin, 27 rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques, 75679 Paris cedex 14, France.

PMID: 16705069
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2005-1989

No abstract available

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adrenocorticotropic Hormone / metabolism
Adult
Carcinoid Tumor / diagnosis*
Carcinoid Tumor / metabolism
Heart Neoplasms / diagnosis*
Heart Neoplasms / metabolism
Humans
Male
Receptors, Somatostatin / analysis*
Tomography, Emission-Computed
Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

Receptors, Somatostatin
Adrenocorticotropic Hormone