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| Year : 2020 | Volume
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Coexisting somatostatin receptor expressing gastric neuroendocrine tumor primary and lymph nodal tuberculosis on 68Ga-DOTANOC positron emission tomography/computed tomography
Saurabh Arora1, Sameer Rastogi2, Shamim Ahmed Shamim1, Adarsh Wamanrao Barward3, Benjamin Leroy Passah4
1 Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
2 Department of Medical Oncology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
3 Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
4 Department of Paediatric Surgery, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital and Post Graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Shamim Ahmed Shamim
Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
India
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DOI: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_33_20
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Gastric neuroendocrine tumors (G-NETs) express somatostatin receptors (SSTR), which can be imaged using radiolabeled somatostatin analogs, including 68Ga-DOTA octreotide analogs. SSTR expression is also seen in activated lymphocytes and macrophages, which might result in false-positive results on SSTR imaging, in patients with coexistent granulomatous pathologies including tuberculosis, sarcoidosis, and Wegener's granulomatosis. We present a case where 68Ga-DOTANOC positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) showed primary G-NET, with SSTR expressing nonregional lymph nodes which on histopathology showed necrotizing granulomas with Langhans histiocytes. Antitubercular therapy was started, and a decrease in size and SSTR expression in involved lymph nodes was noted on follow-up 68Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT.
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