van Gelder T, Verhoeven G T, de Jong P, Oei H Y, Krenning E P, Vuzevski V D, van den Meiracker A H
Department of Internal Medicine I, University Hospital Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
J Nucl Med. 1995 Apr;36(4):620-2.
A patient with an aorticopulmonary paraganglioma was found to have normal plasma norepinephrine and epinephrine levels and elevated dopamine levels. Iodine-123-MIBG scintigraphy did not visualize this tumor. The same finding on a negative MIBG scan in two patients with exclusively dopamine-secreting chemodectomas has been previously reported. In our patient, [111In-DTPA-D-Phe1]-octreotide scintigraphy proved to be an effective imaging technique.
