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Incidental detection of pigmented villonodular synovitis on FDG PET
Mehmet T Kitapci1, R Edward Coleman
1Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710, USA.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|August 5, 2003
Abstract:
18 Fluorine fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) has been used extensively in positron emission tomographic (PET) imaging for oncology. FDG is a glucose analog demonstrating enhanced uptake in the majority of malignant as well as granulomatous lesions. Although a few cases of pigmented villonodular synovitis using bone scanning agents Tl-201 chloride, Ga-67 citrate, and Tc-99m pentavalent dimercaptosuccinic acid have been published, to our knowledge FDG PET imaging of pigmented villonodular synovitis has not.