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Endocrine Abstracts (2007) 13 P5

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68Ga-DOTANOC based PET-CT co-registration: A novel approach for a rapid and precise tumor localization in oncogenic osteomalacia

Eric Hese 1 , Klaus Gratz 2 , Friedrich Laenger 3 , Leonhard Bastian 4 & Georg Brabant 5


1Orthopaedics and Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven CT, United States; 2Nuclear Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Hannover, Germany; 3Pathology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; 4Trauma Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany; 5Dept. of Endocrinology, Christie Hospital, Hannover, United Kingdom.


Introduction: Oncogenic osteomalacia (OOM) is an uncommon disorder characterized by hyperphosphaturia, hypophosphatemia, decreased vitamin D3 serum levels, and osteomalacia. The paraneoplastic syndrome is driven by a small somatostatin receptor (sstr)-positive tumor that produces phosphatonins. While it is almost always difficult to detect the tumor by common imaging techniques, PET-CT using the radiotracer 68Ga-DOTANOC represents a novel diagnostic approach which facilitates a precise and rapid localization of the associated lesion.

Materials and methods: 2 female patients (age 46 and 63 yrs) complained of severe back pain, atraumatic metatarsal fractures, general muscle weakness, and reduced physical activity for more than one year. Both patients had a high suspicion of OOM because of very low serum phosphate levels, hypophospaturia, and normal PTH. In either case, a careful search for the tumor was initiated by standard imaging techniques as well as PET-CT co-registration using the novel octreotide-derived radiopharmaceutical compound 68Ga-DOTANOC, which has an improved affinity to sstr 2 and 5.

Results: While all routinely used imaging techniques such as CT or MRI were not capable to localize the tumor, only PET-CT co-registration using 68Ga-DOTANOC revealed the exact tumor localization in the right femoral head in both cases. All symptoms were rapidly reversed upon tumor resection and biochemical parameters returned to normal.

Conclusions: 68Ga-DOTANOC-based PET-CT is a novel and powerful approach to detect sst-positive tumors and to provide highly resolved images facilitating the development of a therapeutic strategy.

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