Delayed Uptake of Tc-99m Ethylene Dicysteine in a Post-Transplant Lymphocele Demonstrated on Dynamic Renal Scintigraphy and SPECT/CT

作者:Senthil Raja; Bhattacharya Anish*; Sharma Ashish; Harisankar Chidambaram Natarajan Balasubramanian; Mittal Bhagwant Rai
来源:Clinical Nuclear Medicine, 2011, 36(5): 370-372.
DOI:10.1097/RLU.0b013e31820aa1db

摘要

Lymphocele is a well-recognized complication following renal transplant surgery. Dynamic renal scintigraphy is routinely used to evaluate renal transplant dysfunction. Conventionally, early appearance of an extrarenal tracer collection suggests a urinoma and a persistently "cold" collection suggests a lymphocele, hematoma, or abscess. The authors describe a renal transplant recipient in whom dynamic renal scintigraphy followed by SPECT/CT with Tc99m-ethylene dicysteine showed slow tracer accumulation in a perirenal collection, which was subsequently confirmed to be a lymphocele.