Open AccessDiffuse pleural metastases of osteosarcoma detected by bone scan
Author(s) -
André Marcondes Braga Ribeiro,
Eduardo Nóbrega Pereira Lima,
Daniel Habib Issa Lima
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
world journal of nuclear medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1607-3312
pISSN - 1450-1147
DOI - 10.4103/wjnm.wjnm_59_20
Subject(s) - medicine , radiology , bone scintigraphy , pleural thickening , osteosarcoma , ossification , computed tomography , thickening , lung , nuclear medicine , pathology , surgery , chemistry , polymer science
Osteosarcoma (OS) is a fast-growing tumor, with a high risk of local recurrence and distant metastases, with the lung and bone being the most common sites of dissemination occurring in approximately 80% of cases. Pleural metastases rarely occurs and the appearance of diffuse pleural thickening with ossification is not usual, with few such cases reported due to the current state-of-art treatment protocols. A 29-year-old woman, diagnosed with a proximal left tibial OS underwent planar and single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography bone scan scintigraphy with 99mtechnetium methylene diphosphonate showing bilateral pleural uptake, corresponding to multiple calcified foci of thickening and nodules.