Combined PET/CT by 18F-FDOPA, 18F-FDA, 18F-FDG, and MRI correlation on a patient with Carney triad.

Clin Nucl Med

From the *Section on Endocrinology and Genetics, Program on Developmental Endocrinology and Genetics, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, †Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center, and ‡Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD; and §Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.

Published: January 2015

Carney triad is a rare syndrome involving gastrointestinal stromal tumor, pulmonary chondroma, and extra-adrenal paraganglioma. We present a 21-year-old woman with the complete triad who was evaluated with MRI, F-FDOPA, F-FDA, and F-FDG. F-FDOPA best demonstrated the paraganglioma, whereas hepatic metastases noted by MRI demonstrated increased uptake only by F-FDG.

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