Open AccessSynchronous thoracic and abdominal enteric duplication cysts: Accurate detection with99mTc-pertechnetate scintigraphy
Author(s) -
KM Prasanna Kumar,
Varun Singh Dhull,
Sellam Karunanithi,
Partha Sarathi Chakraborty,
Shambo Guha Roy,
Shouriyo Ghosh,
Sandeep Agarwala,
Madhavi Tripathi
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
indian journal of nuclear medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 0972-3919
pISSN - 0974-0244
DOI - 10.4103/0972-3919.147545
Subject(s) - medicine , scintigraphy , gene duplication , gastrointestinal tract , pertechnetate , nuclear medicine , technetium , radiology , gastroenterology , pathology , biology , biochemistry , gene
Enteric duplication cysts (EDCs) are uncommon congenital anomalies, which can occur anywhere along the gastrointestinal tract and vary greatly in presentation, size, location and symptoms. Ectopic gastric mucosa is reported to be found in 20-30% of these duplications. (99m)Tc-pertechnetate scintigraphy is a useful modality for preoperative localization of the ectopic functioning gastric mucosa in the EDCs. We report a case where (99m)Tc-pertechnetate scintigraphy was useful in detecting synchronous thoracic and abdominal duplication cysts with functioning gastric mucosa thus having an impact on the patient management.