Open AccessUtility of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography in the detection of primary colonic malignancy presenting as an inguinoscrotal hernia
Author(s) -
Anitha Mandava,
Veeraiah Koppula,
Zakir Ali Abubakar
Publication year - 2019
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/ijnm.ijnm_149_18
Subject(s) - medicine , positron emission tomography , malignancy , radiology , sigmoid colon , hernia , fluorodeoxyglucose , computed tomography , carcinoma , nuclear medicine , surgery , pathology , rectum
Carcinoma of the sigmoid colon presenting in an inguinoscrotal hernia is uncommon. Many of the cases seen in literature were diagnosed only intraoperatively, as most of them had misleading presentations. We report a case of carcinoma of the sigmoid colon in an incarcerated inguinoscrotal hernia with imaging findings of 18F-FDG PET/CT along with a brief review of the literature.