A Rare Case of Follicular Dendritic Cell Tumor of the Abdominal Cavity Visualized by 18 F-AlF-NOTA-Octreotide PET/CT

Guozhu Hou; Xin Cheng; Li Sun; Xuejuan Wang; Rong Zheng

doi:10.1097/RLU.0000000000005369

A Rare Case of Follicular Dendritic Cell Tumor of the Abdominal Cavity Visualized by 18 F-AlF-NOTA-Octreotide PET/CT

Clin Nucl Med. 2024 Dec 1;49(12):1118-1119. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000005369. Epub 2024 Jul 3.

Authors

Guozhu Hou¹, Xin Cheng¹, Li Sun², Xuejuan Wang¹, Rong Zheng¹

Affiliations

¹ From the Department of Nuclear Medicine (PET-CT Center).
² Department of Pathology, National Cancer Center, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Cancer Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.

PMID: 38968592
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000005369

Abstract

Positivity of follicular dendritic cell tumor in somatostatin receptor imaging is rare. A 68-year-old woman underwent ultrasound in health examination. The results showed abnormal echoes in the pancreatic head region, suggestive of a neuroendocrine tumor of the pancreatic head. 18 F-AlF-NOTA-octreotide PET/CT was performed for staging. 18 F-AlF-NOTA-octreotide PET/CT revealed an irregular mass between the caudate lobe of the liver and the pancreatic head with heterogeneously increased uptake, which was later confirmed as follicular dendritic cell tumor by pathological examination.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Abdominal Cavity / diagnostic imaging
Abdominal Cavity / pathology
Aged
Dendritic Cells, Follicular
Female
Heterocyclic Compounds
Heterocyclic Compounds, 1-Ring
Humans
Multimodal Imaging
Octreotide* / analogs & derivatives
Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

Octreotide
1,4,7-triazacyclononane-N,N',N''-triacetic acid
Heterocyclic Compounds, 1-Ring
Heterocyclic Compounds