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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · World J Nucl Med 2018; 17(03): 201-203
DOI: 10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_45_17
Case report

Gallbladder activity on sodium fluoride positron emission tomography/computed tomography bone scan

Ismet Sarikaya
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat
,
Abdelhamid Elgazzar
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Safat
,
Mahmoud Alfeeli
1   Department of Nuclear Medicine, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, Jabriya, Kuwait
,
Ali Sarikaya
2   Department of Nuclear Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey
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We incidentally identified gallbladder activity on 18F sodium fluoride (NaF) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) bone images in five patients. Variable degree of bowel activity is usually seen on NaF PET/CT images, and its mechanism is unknown. Gallbladder activity in our cases may indicate that hepatobiliary excretion of the 18F NaF is the reason for bowel activity on NaF PET/CT images. However, excretion of radiotracer through bowel may also contribute to the bowel activity.

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18F sodium fluoride - bowel - gallbladder - positron emission tomography/computed tomography - sodium fluoride


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17 May 2022

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