{"id":37,"date":"2013-10-14T05:10:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T05:10:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2013-10-27T01:35:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T01:35:02","slug":"mibg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/mibg\/","title":{"rendered":"MIBG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Useful when cross-sectional imaging is negative and an ectopic pheochromocytoma is suspected.<\/p>\n<h3>What is an MIBG scan<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Uses a radiactive substance (tracer) and a scanner to find the presence of pheochromocytoma or neuroblastoma.<\/li>\n<li>MIBG is the radioisotope. \u00a0metaiodobenzylguanidine<\/li>\n<li>Patients are sometimes given an iodine mixture to prevent the thyroid gland from absorbing too much of the radioisotope.<\/li>\n<li>90% sensitive for detection of pheochromocytomas<\/li>\n<li>FDOPA (fluoro-Dopa) PET\/CT scan is also available for the detection of pheochromocytomas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>\u00a0Pheochormocytomas typically show evidence of hyperintensity on T2 weighted MRI.<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Useful when cross-sectional imaging is negative and an ectopic pheochromocytoma is suspected. What is an MIBG scan Uses a radiactive substance (tracer) and a scanner to find the presence of pheochromocytoma or neuroblastoma. MIBG is the radioisotope. \u00a0metaiodobenzylguanidine Patients are sometimes given an iodine mixture to prevent the thyroid gland from absorbing too much of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/mibg\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MIBG<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,48,46],"tags":[49,50],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adrenal","category-mibg-scan","category-pheochromocytoma","tag-iodine","tag-radioisotope"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions\/150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.modestosurgery.com\/surgeryblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}