A 9-year-old male patient, with an ultrasonography diagnosis of horseshoe kidney condition, was referred to our hospital for recurrent urinary tract infection. He was submitted to 99mTc-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid sequential scintigraphy that demonstrated urine stasis in the calyces of both kidneys and was also suggestive for 8-shaped right-to-left crossed-fused renal ectopia. A subsequently performed 99mTc-dimercaptosuccinic acid scan confirmed the diagnosis of crossed renal ectopia, also disclosing, through single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) acquisition, cortical uptake defects in both kidneys, and indicative of renal scarring due to recurrent pyelonephritis. Combined scintigraphy and appropriate technological approaches (SPECT/3D volume rendering) may be useful in selected patients with congenital anomalies.

A rare case of a pediatric patient affected by crossed fused renal ectopia: the usefulness of dual tracer99mTc-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid/99mTc-dimercaptosuccinic acid scintigraphy / Filippi, L.; Bagni, O.; Marcellino, A.; Lubrano, R.. - In: INDIAN JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE. - ISSN 0972-3919. - 35:4(2020), pp. 374-376. [10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_136_20]

A rare case of a pediatric patient affected by crossed fused renal ectopia: the usefulness of dual tracer99mTc-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid/99mTc-dimercaptosuccinic acid scintigraphy

Marcellino A.;Lubrano R.
2020

Abstract

A 9-year-old male patient, with an ultrasonography diagnosis of horseshoe kidney condition, was referred to our hospital for recurrent urinary tract infection. He was submitted to 99mTc-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid sequential scintigraphy that demonstrated urine stasis in the calyces of both kidneys and was also suggestive for 8-shaped right-to-left crossed-fused renal ectopia. A subsequently performed 99mTc-dimercaptosuccinic acid scan confirmed the diagnosis of crossed renal ectopia, also disclosing, through single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) acquisition, cortical uptake defects in both kidneys, and indicative of renal scarring due to recurrent pyelonephritis. Combined scintigraphy and appropriate technological approaches (SPECT/3D volume rendering) may be useful in selected patients with congenital anomalies.
2020
99m; Tc-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid; 99m; Tc-dimercaptosuccinic acid; congenital abnormalities; renal scintigraphy; single-photon emission computed tomography
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A rare case of a pediatric patient affected by crossed fused renal ectopia: the usefulness of dual tracer99mTc-diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid/99mTc-dimercaptosuccinic acid scintigraphy / Filippi, L.; Bagni, O.; Marcellino, A.; Lubrano, R.. - In: INDIAN JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE. - ISSN 0972-3919. - 35:4(2020), pp. 374-376. [10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_136_20]
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