This is one of the family of scans that show up the liver, spleen and bladder.
To this family belong:
- MIBG - no bowel seen
- Octreotide - bowel seen
- HMPAO WBC - bowel seen AND marrow seen
Octreotide is bound to either Indium or I-123.
It is taken up by neuroendocrine tumours - carcinoid, medullary ca thyroid, phaeo, euroblastoma, gastrinoma.
It can also be used as treatment therefore if it is labelled with I-131.
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