Foreign Body Perforating the Descending Colon Incidentally Detected on 18F-FDG PET/CT

Paulo Schiavom Duarte; George Barberio Coura-Filho; Marcelo Tatit Sapienza; Hongming Zhuang; Carlos Alberto Buchpiguel

doi:10.1097/RLU.0000000000005609

Foreign Body Perforating the Descending Colon Incidentally Detected on 18F-FDG PET/CT

Clin Nucl Med. 2024 Dec 2. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000005609. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Paulo Schiavom Duarte, George Barberio Coura-Filho¹, Marcelo Tatit Sapienza², Hongming Zhuang³, Carlos Alberto Buchpiguel

Affiliations

¹ From the Division of Nuclear Medicine, São Paulo Cancer Institute (ICESP), São Paulo, Brazil.
² Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology and Oncology, Medical School of University of São Paulo (FMUSP), São Paulo, Brazil.
³ Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.

PMID: 39626275
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000005609

Abstract

A 78-year-old woman was diagnosed having unresectable tongue cancer 6 months ago, for which she received radiation therapy. She was on enteral nutrition for more than 2 months due to dysphagia and underwent an 18F-FDG PET/CT for restaging. The images showed uptake in a left cervical node. In addition, there was a focal uptake in the descending colon corresponding to a foreign body in its anterior wall, which was removed by colonoscopy.