PET-positive fibrous dysplasia--a potentially misleading incidental finding in a patient with intimal sarcoma of the pulmonary artery

Klaus Strobel; Beata Bode; Didier Lardinois; Ulrich Exner

doi:10.1007/s00256-006-0152-y

PET-positive fibrous dysplasia--a potentially misleading incidental finding in a patient with intimal sarcoma of the pulmonary artery

Skeletal Radiol. 2007 Jun:36 Suppl 1:S24-8. doi: 10.1007/s00256-006-0152-y. Epub 2006 May 20.

Authors

Klaus Strobel¹, Beata Bode, Didier Lardinois, Ulrich Exner

Affiliation

¹ Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Medical Radiology, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland. [email protected]

PMID: 16715239
DOI: 10.1007/s00256-006-0152-y

Abstract

Benign bone tumors can show an increased FDG uptake in FDG-PET/CT investigations. In the presented case, an incidentally detected PET-positive asymptomatic fibrous dysplasia was initially misinterpreted as a metastasis in a patient with intimal sarcoma of the pulmonary artery.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adult
Contrast Media
Diagnosis, Differential
Fibrous Dysplasia of Bone / diagnostic imaging*
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Humans
Incidental Findings
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Pneumonectomy
Pulmonary Artery / diagnostic imaging*
Pulmonary Artery / pathology
Pulmonary Artery / surgery
Radiopharmaceuticals
Sarcoma / diagnostic imaging*
Sarcoma / pathology
Sarcoma / surgery
Tomography, Emission-Computed*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Tunica Intima / diagnostic imaging
Tunica Intima / pathology
Vascular Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Vascular Neoplasms / pathology
Vascular Neoplasms / surgery

Substances

Contrast Media
Radiopharmaceuticals
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18