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Benign Traumatic Rib Fracture: A Potential Pitfall on 68Ga-Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen PET/CT for Prostate
Mads Ryø Jochumsen1, André H Dias, Kirsten Bouchelouche
1From the Department of Nuclear Medicine & PET Centre, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark.
Abstract:
Two, respectively, 72- and 76-year-old men with recently diagnosed high-risk prostate cancer were referred for primary staging with Ga-prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET/CT. In both patients, the PET scans revealed increased Ga-PSMA uptake in, respectively, 3 and 4 rib fractures, characteristically placed as "pearls on a string." These cases illustrate important pitfalls when reporting PSMA PET.
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