• Nucl Med Commun · Jun 2020

    Absence of hepatic activity in lymphoscintigraphy performed with Tc-99m-Nanoscan.

    • Adeel Syed, Danielle Levart, Manuela Vadrucci, Victoria Gibson, and A Michael Peters.
    • Department of Nuclear Medicine, King's College Hospital.
    • Nucl Med Commun. 2020 Jun 1; 41 (6): 505-509.

    IntroductionFor assessment of lower extremity swelling using lymphoscintigraphy, several nuclear medicine departments in the UK have recently switched from Tc-Nanocoll to Tc-Nanoscan. The aim of the study was to compare quantitative and semiquantitative features of lymphoscintigraphy between these two tracers.MethodsTwenty patients received Tc-Nanocoll and 20 received Tc-Nanoscan either side of the switch-over in our department. Tracers were compared with respect to visualisation of the liver, para-aortic lymph nodes and urine (all graded by consensus from 0 to 3; invisible-to-very prominent); and with respect to ilio-inguinal nodal quantification and ratio of liver-to-summed bilateral ilio-inguinal nodal activity at 120 min postinjection (L/N120). Scans were deemed abnormal when there was lymph diversion through skin or deep system, no activity in ilio-inguinal nodes at 60 min or negligible ilio-inguinal activity (<5%, left plus right) at 120 min.ResultsLiver was visualised in 18/20 Tc-Nanocoll but only 3/20 Tc-Nanoscan scans. Moreover, para-aortic activity was less prominent after Tc-Nanoscan. Urinary activity was more prominent after Tc-Nanocoll. There were 9/20 patients with stomach activity after Tc-Nanocoll compared with 1/20 after Tc-Nanoscan. Urinary and stomach activities correlated. There was an elevated L/N120, and therefore a suspicion of peripheral lympho-venous communication, in the single Tc-Nanoscan patient who displayed prominent hepatic activity.ConclusionHepatic activity is the result of accumulation of colloidal degradation products generated in lymph nodes, rather than intact colloid. Tc-Nanoscan gives less hepatic activity than Tc-Nanocoll because it is more resistant to intranodal degradation. Peripheral lymphovenous communication remains a possible alternative route for activity to reach the liver.

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