Volume 59, Issue 2, Pages 297-299 (February 2011) Hepatorenal Polycystic Disease and Fever: Diagnostic Contribution of Gallium Citrate Ga 67 Scan and Fluorine F 18 FDG-PET/CT Julio Francisco Jiménez-Bonilla, Remedios Quirce, Emilio Rodrigo Calabia, Ignacio Banzo, Isabel Martínez-Rodríguez, José Manuel Carril European Urology Volume 59, Issue 2, Pages 297-299 (February 2011) DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2009.05.049 Copyright © 2009 European Association of Urology Terms and Conditions
Fig. 1 Ultrasonography study of the liver showing a cyst without signs of infection. European Urology 2011 59, 297-299DOI: (10.1016/j.eururo.2009.05.049) Copyright © 2009 European Association of Urology Terms and Conditions
Fig. 2 Ultrasonography study of the kidneys showing polycystic disease without signs of infection. European Urology 2011 59, 297-299DOI: (10.1016/j.eururo.2009.05.049) Copyright © 2009 European Association of Urology Terms and Conditions
Fig. 3 Gallium citrate Ga 67 scintigraphy, planar and single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), showing the infected focus in the right hypochondrium; however, the morphologic changes due to polycystic disease that are visible with CT do not provide an accurate location in the liver or kidney. European Urology 2011 59, 297-299DOI: (10.1016/j.eururo.2009.05.049) Copyright © 2009 European Association of Urology Terms and Conditions
Fig. 4 Morphofunctional imaging with fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in combination with computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT) showed how the pathologic focus detected by gallium citrate Ga 67 was located in one of the cysts of the right kidney. European Urology 2011 59, 297-299DOI: (10.1016/j.eururo.2009.05.049) Copyright © 2009 European Association of Urology Terms and Conditions