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Unexpected Pregnancy Revealed on 18F-NaF PET/CT

Fuqiang Shao1, Yue Chen, Zhanwen Huang

  • 1From the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Sichuan Medical University, Luzhou, Sichuan, People's Republic of China.

Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|September 12, 2015
PubMed

A 48-year-old illiterate woman who is congenitally deaf and mute underwent 18F-NaF PET/CT study to evaluate bone metastases from newly diagnosed breast cancer. Unexpectedly, a fetus in early second trimester was noted on CT images. In addition, subtle 18F-NaF uptake by the fetus could also be observed.

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