TY - JOUR
T1 - 68Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT in an Atypical Extraskeletal Paravertebral Hemangioma Mimicking as Neurogenic Tumor in a Known Case of Breast Cancer
AU - Vadi, Shelvin Kumar
AU - Mittal, Bhagwant Rai
AU - Parihar, Ashwin Singh
AU - Kumar, Rajender
AU - Singh, Harmandeep
AU - Singh, Gurpreet
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PY - 2019/5/1
Y1 - 2019/5/1
N2 - 68Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT is well documented in evaluation of well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumors and in other lesions with somatostatin receptor expression such as pheochromocytoma, paraganglioma, neuroblastoma, meningioma, and mesenchymal tumors causing oncogenic osteomalacia. Causes of interpretative pitfalls include prominent pancreatic uncinate process activity, inflammation, osteoblastic activity (degenerative bone disease/fracture/vertebral hemangioma), splenunculi/splenosis, and others. We present a case of extraskeletal paravertebral lesion detected in a known case of breast cancer with increased 68Ga-DOTANOC uptake later proved to be hemangioma. This is a novel finding and should be kept as a rare benign differential in evaluation of lesions with somatostatin receptor expression.
AB - 68Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT is well documented in evaluation of well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumors and in other lesions with somatostatin receptor expression such as pheochromocytoma, paraganglioma, neuroblastoma, meningioma, and mesenchymal tumors causing oncogenic osteomalacia. Causes of interpretative pitfalls include prominent pancreatic uncinate process activity, inflammation, osteoblastic activity (degenerative bone disease/fracture/vertebral hemangioma), splenunculi/splenosis, and others. We present a case of extraskeletal paravertebral lesion detected in a known case of breast cancer with increased 68Ga-DOTANOC uptake later proved to be hemangioma. This is a novel finding and should be kept as a rare benign differential in evaluation of lesions with somatostatin receptor expression.
KW - 18F-FDG
KW - 68Ga-DOTANOC
KW - extraskeletal hemangioma
KW - paravertebral lesion
KW - PET/CT
KW - SSTR expression
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U2 - 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002521
DO - 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002521
M3 - Article
C2 - 30829863
AN - SCOPUS:85064240064
VL - 44
SP - E364-E366
JO - Clinical Nuclear Medicine
JF - Clinical Nuclear Medicine
SN - 0363-9762
IS - 5
ER -