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Incidental 99mTc-DTPA Uptake in Tarlov Cysts on Radionuclide SPECT/CT Cisternography. 2017

Shankar Vamadevan, and Ken Le, and Chuong Bui, and Robert Mansberg

From the *Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET, Nepean Hospital, Penrith, NSW, Australia; and †Nepean Medical School, University of Sydney, NSW, Australia.

Sacral perineural cysts are also known as Tarlov cysts. A 58-year-old man with suspected intracranial hypotension was evaluated with Tc-DTPA radionuclide cisternography. Radionuclide planar and SPECT/CT cisternography revealed Tc-DTPA uptake in sacral lesions. Spine MRI confirmed Tarlov cysts at the S1 and S2 levels.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008279	Magnetic Resonance Imaging	Non-invasive method of demonstrating internal anatomy based on the principle that atomic nuclei in a strong magnetic field absorb pulses of radiofrequency energy and emit them as radiowaves which can be reconstructed into computerized images. The concept includes proton spin tomographic techniques.	Chemical Shift Imaging,MR Tomography,MRI Scans,MRI, Functional,Magnetic Resonance Image,Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Functional,Magnetization Transfer Contrast Imaging,NMR Imaging,NMR Tomography,Tomography, NMR,Tomography, Proton Spin,fMRI,Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging,Imaging, Chemical Shift,Proton Spin Tomography,Spin Echo Imaging,Steady-State Free Precession MRI,Tomography, MR,Zeugmatography,Chemical Shift Imagings,Echo Imaging, Spin,Echo Imagings, Spin,Functional MRI,Functional MRIs,Image, Magnetic Resonance,Imaging, Magnetic Resonance,Imaging, NMR,Imaging, Spin Echo,Imagings, Chemical Shift,Imagings, Spin Echo,MRI Scan,MRIs, Functional,Magnetic Resonance Images,Resonance Image, Magnetic,Scan, MRI,Scans, MRI,Shift Imaging, Chemical,Shift Imagings, Chemical,Spin Echo Imagings,Steady State Free Precession MRI
D008297	Male		Males
D008875	Middle Aged	An adult aged 45 - 64 years.	Middle Age
D009192	Myelography	X-ray visualization of the spinal cord following injection of contrast medium into the spinal arachnoid space.	Cisternography, Myelographic,Myelographic Cisternography,Cisternographies, Myelographic,Myelographic Cisternographies,Myelographies
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000072098	Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography Computed Tomography	An imaging technique using a device which combines TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON and TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED in the same session.	CT SPECT,CT SPECT Scan,SPECT CT,SPECT CT Scan,CT SPECT Scans,CT SPECTs,CT Scan, SPECT,CT Scans, SPECT,SPECT CT Scans,SPECT Scan, CT,SPECT Scans, CT,SPECT, CT,SPECTs, CT,Scan, CT SPECT,Scan, SPECT CT,Scans, CT SPECT,Scans, SPECT CT
D012447	Sacrum	Five fused VERTEBRAE forming a triangle-shaped structure at the back of the PELVIS. It articulates superiorly with the LUMBAR VERTEBRAE, inferiorly with the COCCYX, and anteriorly with the ILIUM of the PELVIS. The sacrum strengthens and stabilizes the PELVIS.	Sacra,Sacral Vertebra,Sacral Vertebrae,Sacrums,Vertebra, Sacral,Vertebrae, Sacral
D016284	Technetium Tc 99m Pentetate	A technetium imaging agent used in renal scintigraphy, computed tomography, lung ventilation imaging, gastrointestinal scintigraphy, and many other procedures which employ radionuclide imaging agents.	Tc 99m-DTPA,Tc-DTPA,Technetium-DTPA,Technetium (99m) Pentetate,Technetium Pentetic Acid,Technetium diethylenetriamine pentaacetic acid,99m-DTPA, Tc,Pentetic Acid, Technetium,Tc 99m DTPA,Technetium DTPA
D052958	Tarlov Cysts	Perineurial cysts commonly found in the SACRAL REGION. They arise from the PERINEURIUM membrane within the SPINAL NERVE ROOTS. The distinctive feature of the cysts is the presence of spinal nerve root fibers within the cyst wall, or the cyst cavity itself.	Perineural Cyst,Perineurial Cyst,Perineurial Cysts,Sacral Perineural Cyst,Tarlov Cyst,Perineural Cysts,Sacral Perineural Cysts,Sacral Tarlov Cysts,Cyst, Perineural,Cyst, Perineurial,Cyst, Sacral Perineural,Cyst, Tarlov,Cysts, Perineural,Cysts, Perineurial,Cysts, Sacral Perineural,Cysts, Sacral Tarlov,Cysts, Tarlov
D019275	Radiopharmaceuticals	Compounds that are used in medicine as sources of radiation for radiotherapy and for diagnostic purposes. They have numerous uses in research and industry. (Martindale, The Extra Pharmacopoeia, 30th ed, p1161)	Radiopharmaceutical