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Continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis is a convenient alternate form of treatment in patients receiving hemodialysis for renal failure. Sometimes during the procedure, patients may develop scrotal swelling because of patent processus vaginalis. The diagnostic utility of the peritoneal scintigraphy, an infrequently performed nuclear medicine scan to identify peritoneoscrotal communication, has been reported by many authors. Most of the previous case reports in the literature demonstrated unilateral peritoneoscrotal communication. We present an interesting 99mTc–sulfur colloid peritoneal scintigraphic image finding of bilateral peritoneoscrotal communication in a 67-year-old man who developed scrotal swelling while undergoing continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.

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Fanconi anemia (FA) is a genetic disease associated with a risk of congenital malformations, bone marrow failure, and a predisposition to cancer. Congenital abnormalities of the kidney and urinary tract are not infrequent in FA, with renal ectopia being among them. The incidence of bilateral pelvic kidney is restricted to only a few reported cases; however, its association with FA has never, to our knowledge, been reported in the literature. We present a case of FA in a girl whose 99m Tc-dimercaptosuccinic acid planar scan showed apparently fused kidneys, which were confirmed to be bilateral pelvic kidney on hybrid cross-sectional imaging.

Limbic encephalitis is the inflammation of the medial temporal lobe structures due to direct infectious or indirect autoimmune etiology. Sarcoidosis is a rare cause of limbic encephalitis, has been reported by some authors. Association has also been reported between sarcoidosis, myasthenia gravis, and limbic encephalitis. We report an interesting case of 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography demonstrating limbic encephalitis and sarcoidosis in a known case of myasthenia gravis.