Multimodal radionuclide shuntography for device patency: New procedural tips for anuncommon historical technique.

Hellenic journal of nuclear medicine(2024)

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Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunting is an established long-term treatment option for hydrocephalus, and is one of the most commonly performed neurosurgical procedures in western countries.Despite advances in CSF shunt design and management, its failure rates remain high and is most commonly due to obstruction and infection.Cerebrospinal fluidshunt failure diagnosis should be prompt and accurate in establishing timely if its revision is appropriate. Radionuclide shuntography with technetium-99m-diethylenetriaminepetaacetic acid (99mTc-DTPA) is a useful technique for evaluation CSF shunts and management of patients presenting with shunt-related problems, in particular it can avoid unnecessary replacement interventions. Although its execution and interpretation require specific skills, we suggest its execution for the evaluation of device's patency. We here describe the radionuclide shuntography performed with recent hybrid multimodal technologies, with a procedure customized to a complicated patient with hydrocefalus and neoplastic disease. We suggest considering radionuclide shuntography in association with conventional imagingand strongly recommend the additional performance of single photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT) because it also provides valuable information to complete the interpretation of planar images.
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