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Visual evaluation and differentiation of renal oncocytomas from renal cell carcinomas by means of 99mTc-sestamibi SPECT/CT

Overview of attention for article published in EJNMMI Research, March 2017
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Title
Visual evaluation and differentiation of renal oncocytomas from renal cell carcinomas by means of 99mTc-sestamibi SPECT/CT
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EJNMMI Research, March 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13550-017-0278-z
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Antonios Tzortzakakis, Ove Gustafsson, Mattias Karlsson, Linnea Ekström-Ehn, Rammin Ghaffarpour, Rimma Axelsson

Abstract

Despite the progress in the quality of multiphasic CT and MRI scans, it is still difficult to fully characterize a solid kidney lesion. Approximately 10% of all solid renal tumours turn out to be oncocytomas. In actual clinical practice, this is verified only following unnecessary surgery or a renal biopsy/ablation. The objective of our pilot study examines whether (99m)Tc-sestamibi SPECT/CT can play a crucial role in the characterization of solid renal neoplasms and the differentiation of oncocytomas from renal cell carcinomas. The study included 27 patients identified with 31 solid renal lesions. All patients were discussed in a multidisciplinary conference, and a decision for surgery or biopsy was taken. Prior to invasive procedures, patients underwent a SPECT/CT with (99m)Tc-sestamibi. Visual evaluation was performed, and any focal (99m)Tc-sestamibi uptake detected on SPECT in the localisation of tumour was considered as positive. Eleven out of 12 oncocytomas (91.6%) displayed positive uptake of (99m)Tc-sestamibi. Three hybrid tumours (mixed-type oncocytoma and chromophobe renal cancer) were positive on SPECT/CT. One papillary renal cell carcinoma had a slight uptake of (99m)Tc-sestamibi. The remaining 11 renal cell carcinomas were sestamibi negative. Differentiation of benign renal oncocytomas from renal cell carcinomas seems very promising on (99m)Tc-sestamibi SPECT/CT examination. Additional supplement to visual evaluation, i.e. quantitative tools, should be sought for an accurate estimate of biological behaviour and hence a secure diagnosis.

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Unknown 39 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 7 18%
Student > Doctoral Student 6 15%
Other 4 10%
Researcher 4 10%
Student > Postgraduate 3 8%
Other 6 15%
Unknown 9 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 25 64%
Nursing and Health Professions 2 5%
Business, Management and Accounting 1 3%
Unknown 11 28%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 14. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 February 2018.
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