A congenital abnormal connection between an accessory spleen and a gonad is called splenogonadal fusion. The parent of a 3-y-old boy brought him to King Saud Medical City because he had left scrotal swelling that had begun 1 y previously. Tc-sulfur colloid (SC) imaging has superior sensitivity and specificity in targeting the liver, spleen, and bone marrow, in that these are the only organs that Tc-SC can visualize.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 77-year-old man with a case of hyperthyroidism with high parathyroid hormone (41 pmol/L), low vitamin D, and normal thyroid-stimulating hormone. The SPECT/CT fused images confirmed the evidence of retrotracheal hyperdense mass approximately 1.0 cm of diameter below the lower pole of the right thyroid lobe with increased uptake, highly suggestive of typical parathyroid adenoma.
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