Abstract
Purpose
In clinical routine somatostatin analogue positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) such as 68Ga-DOTA-Tyr-octreotide (DOTATOC)-PET/CT could substitute conventional 111In-Octreotide scintigraphy. Immunohistochemistry (IHC) for somatostatin receptor 2 (SSTR2) might be a tool to predict positivity of 68Ga-DOTATOC in patients where initial staging was not performed, e.g., in incidental findings. We therefore compared a score of SSTR2-IHC with the in vivo standard uptake value (SUV) of preoperative or prebiopsy 68Ga-DOTATOC PET/CT.
Materials and methods
In 18 patients, 68Ga-DOTATOC PET/CT scans were quantified with SUV calculations and correlated to a cell membrane-based SSTR2-IHC score (ranging from 0 to 3).
Results
Negative IHC scores were consistent with SUV values below 10. Furthermore, all score 2 and 3 specimens corresponded with high SUV values (above 15).
Conclusion
SSTR2-IHC scores correlated well with SUV values and we propose to use SSTR2 immunohistochemistry in patients missing a preoperative PET scan to indicate 68Ga-DOTATOC-PET/CT as method for restaging and follow-up in individual patients.
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Miederer, M., Seidl, S., Buck, A. et al. Correlation of immunohistopathological expression of somatostatin receptor 2 with standardised uptake values in 68Ga-DOTATOC PET/CT. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 36, 48–52 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-008-0944-5
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