Urinary Endometriosis Misdiagnosed as Ureteral Malignant Tumor by PET/CT: A Case Study
Hao-Yu Zhu1, You Cheng2, Si-Yun Wang2
1From the Southern Medical University.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|January 25, 2024
Abstract:
Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory estrogen-dependent benign disease. It is defined as the endometrium growing outside the uterine cavity and the myometrium. It usually has low FDG uptake but rarely occurs in the ureters. We reported a case of a 47-year-old woman's left ureteral nodule originally misdiagnosed as a ureteral malignant tumor by PET/CT and finally pathologically confirmed as endometriosis.


