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DETECTION OF A LIVER TUMOR IN A BEAGLE DOG USING SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
Author(s) -
Wolff Ronald K.,
Beierman Wayne F.,
Mason Margaret J.,
Harkema Jack R.,
Muggenburg Bruce A.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
veterinary radiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.541
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1740-8261
pISSN - 0196-3627
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-8261.1988.tb01772.x
Subject(s) - beagle , single photon emission computed tomography , nuclear medicine , emission computed tomography , abdomen , computed tomography , gamma camera , lesion , medicine , radiology , pathology , positron emission tomography
This case report describes the detection of a liver tumor in an 11–year‐old female Beagle dog using single photon‐emission computed tomography (SPECT). A mass was palpated in the cranial abdomen during removal of recurrent mammary tumors. A conventional nuclear medicine liver scan, following injection of 99m Tc‐sulfur colloid, was equivocal. SPECT was then performed in a second procedure, using a simple system that rotated the dog before a gamma camera. Transverse plane images clearly showed a spheric space‐occupying lesion, found at gross necropsy and confirmed histologically as a hepatoma. Discrete liver tumors may be detected more readily and their size determined more accurately using SPECT than with conventional nuclear medicine approaches.