Intense F-18 FDG accumulation in idiopathic tumoral calcinosis.
An elderly Japanese woman presented to our hospital with a 5-month history of a growing mass on her right cheek. She did not complain of local pain, headache, hearing difficulty, or tinnitus. CT and MRI showed a dense calcified mass and F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET demonstrated intense accumulation in the mass. Resection of the mass was performed and it was histologically diagnosed as idiopathic tumoral calcinosis.
Okuyama
Chio
C
Department of Radiology, Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine, Kawaramachi Hirokoji, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan. chio@koto.kpu-m.ac.jp
Kubota
Takao
T
Matsushima
Shigenori
S
Ushijima
Yo
Y
Nishimura
Tsunehiko
T
D000368:Aged; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Q000379:methods; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography / Q000379:methods*; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods
D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18