PET/CT in a patient with adenoma malignum of the uterine cervix
Hadley J Sharp1, Chelsea C Pinnix, Anuja Jhingran
1Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|May 10, 2011
Abstract:
The findings of positron emission tomography combined with computed tomography (PET/CT) in a patient with FIGO stage IIA adenoma malignum of the uterine cervix are described in this article. PET/CT showed that the cervical tumor was intensely hypermetabolic with no evidence of disease spread. However, lymphadenectomy revealed metastatic spread to paraaortic lymph nodes. PET/CT may be useful in identifying primary site of disease in patients with adenoma malignum; however, the utility in detecting metastatic nodal disease remains to be determined.


