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| Year : 2017 | Volume
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Detection of thymoma on 99mtc mibi scintigraphy: Revisiting the past
Girish Kumar Parida, Shambo Guha Roy, Anshul Sharma, Chetan D Patel
Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT, All Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
Chetan D Patel
Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
India
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DOI: 10.4103/0972-3919.198484
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Although thymoma is a rare tumor, it is the most common anterior mediastinal tumor, usually affecting the adults in their fifth and sixth decade. We present a case of 68-year-old man with history of myocardial infarction, who presented to the cardiology OPD with recent onset of exertional dyspnea. On 99mTc MIBI myocardial perfusion SPECT, there was an extra cardiac accumulation of radiotracer in the anterior mediastinum just above the heart, which later was diagnosed as thymoma on histopathology. |
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