Open AccessParasitic leiomyoma on PET-CT in a suspected case of uterine sarcoma - report on diagnosis and management
Author(s) -
Anuja Anand,
Amish Choudhary,
Pankaj Dougall,
Bhavna Bansal,
Madhavi Chawla
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_52_19
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , leiomyoma , radiology , uterine leiomyoma , positron emission tomography , sarcoma , fluorodeoxyglucose , pathology
This case is a very good example of how a multimodality approach was taken in diagnosis and management of patient with suspected uterine sarcoma, which turned out to be uterine leiomyoma with parasitic leiomyoma mimicking the pararenal deposit. There has been an increased use of fluorodeoxyglucose avid positron emission tomography-computed tomography in pelvic malignancies, especially in the cases where there is suspected extrapelvic spread. It was an interesting finding of parasitic leiomyoma, which can be easily thought to be as deposit/mass in a patient with pelvic malignancy.