Open Access18F-Fluoride bone positron emission tomography demonstrating changes related to finger clubbing and hypertrophic osteoarthropathy
Author(s) -
Raghava Kashyap,
Meser M. Ali,
Nagaraju Madhusudhan,
Babaiah Muntimadugu
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
indian journal of nuclear medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 0972-3919
pISSN - 0974-0244
DOI - 10.4103/0972-3919.130319
Subject(s) - medicine , hypertrophic osteoarthropathy , periostitis , positron emission tomography , spinal osteoarthropathy , phalanx , nuclear medicine , radiology , pathology , anatomy
Hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy is manifested by clubbing and periostitis of bones. We present a very rare documentation of increased F18-sodium fluoride uptake in the distal phalanges of both hands correlating to clubbing of the fingers in a 55-year-old female patient with carcinoma of lung in whom bone positron emission tomography was performed for metastatic work-up.