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Pulmonary Artery Sarcoma Detected on F-18 FDG PET/CT as Origin of Multiple Spinal Metastases
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- Issue Date
- 2011-08
- Publisher
- Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Ltd.
- Citation
- Clinical Nuclear Medicine, Vol.36 No.8, pp.E87-E89
- Abstract
- A 67-year-old man with back pain was diagnosed as having multiple spinal metastases on MRI. On CT scan, only a filling defect in the right pulmonary artery was observed and suspected as venous thromboembolism. On F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT, intense hypermetabolism was observed in the right pulmonary artery in addition to the metastatic spine lesions. Biopsy confirmed the lesion as a primary pulmonary artery sarcoma (PAS), and the spine lesions as metastases of PAS. Although PAS is rare and its bone metastasis presenting initial symptom is extremely rare, FDG PET/CT is an effective diagnostic modality for PAS, not only in discrimination from venous thromboembolism, but also in workup of metastatic origin.
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- 0363-9762
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