Korean J Nucl Med.  1997 Mar;31(1):102-107.

The Role of Hepatobiliary Scintigraphy and Oral Cholecystography in Predicting the Performance of Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

• Won KS
• Ryu JS
• Moon DH
• Yang SO
• Han DB
• Park CM
• Lee MG
• Lee HK
• Park KM
• Lee SG

Abstract

131I-6beta-iodomethyl-19-norcholesterol(NP-59) has an advantage to assess adrenal dysfunction caused by adrenal cortical disorders. The aim of this study is to evaluate the clinical usefulness of NP-59 scintigraphy in each adrenral disease. Ten patients who did eleven NP-59 adrenal scintigraphies at Dong-A University Hospital from March 1990 to December 1996 were selected as the subject. Among the subject there were 5 cases of Cushing's syndrome, 2 cases of incidentaloma, 1 case of metastatic adrenal tumor, liver cirrhosis with hirsutism and hypertension respectively. Among 5 case of Cushing's syndrome, there were 2 cases of Cushing's disease, 2 cases of adrenal adenoma and 1 case of adrenal carcinoma. There are no disagreement between clinical diagnosis and scan finding in Cushing's syndrome. In 2 incidentaloma cases, even though one is interpretated as a functioning tumor, both of 2 cases could avoid unnecessary biopsy according to scintigraphy result. One case of hirsutism, clinically adrenal originated, revealed the normal scintigraphic hirsutism was extra-adrenal origin. One case of hypertension took the study to exclude the possibility of primary aldosteronism. Normal suppression scan finding revealed that primary aldosteronism did not exist in this case. In conclusion, NP-59 scintigraphy was very useful in diagnosis and differential diagnosis of Cushing's syndrome and it could avoid unnecessary biopsy in the incidental adrenal tumor.

MeSH Terms

Adenoma
Adosterol
Biopsy
Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic*
Cholecystography*
Cushing Syndrome
Diagnosis
Diagnosis, Differential
Hirsutism
Humans
Hyperaldosteronism
Hypertension
Liver Cirrhosis
Radionuclide Imaging*
Adosterol