title: PET/CT imaging of metastatic deposit in vertebral Paget's disease.
abstract: Metastatic involvement in monostotic Paget's disease is an event of uncommon occurrence. An osseous metastasis, clinically and radiologically difficult to differentiate from sarcomatous degeneration, is often unexpectedly discovered during evaluation for malignant transformation of Paget's disease. The authors present a case of recurrent nonsmall cell lung carcinoma with PET/CT imaging instrumental in the diagnostic biopsy of a metastatic deposit in a pagetoid lumbar vertebra.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, AZ 85259, USA. nguyen.ba@mayo.edu
authors.forename: Ba D
authors.initials: BD
authors.lastname: Nguyen
authors.forename: Panol C
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Ram
authors.forename: Michael C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Roarke
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002289:Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D008159:Lumbar Vertebrae / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D010001:Osteitis Deformans / Q000175:diagnosis*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography / Q000379:methods; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary*; D013382:Subtraction Technique; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods