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The Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine 1999 September;43(3):217-23

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Nuclear medicine imaging of pheochromocytoma and neuroblastoma

Sisson J. C., Shulkin B. L.

From the Division of Nuclear Medicine Department of Internal Medicine University of Michigan Health Systems, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Both phe­och­rom­o­cy­tomas and neu­ro­blas­tomas can now be iden­ti­fied and ­located ­with a ­high ­level of accu­racy. Scin­tig­raphy ­with ­MIBG has ­become an indis­pens­able diag­nostic ­method for ­defining the ­extent and loca­tion of ­many if not ­most phe­och­rom­o­cy­tomas. To ­define the ­stage, to doc­u­ment the ­course and to eval­uate the ­response to ther­a­pies in ­patients ­with neu­ro­blas­toma, ­imaging ­with ­MIBG is now essen­tial.