Case report. PET/CT appearance of desmoid tumour of the chest wall.
Desmoid tumours are rare, poorly circumscribed tumours that have a firm consistency and, although benign, have a remarkable tendency to infiltrate into surrounding structures. Extra-abdominal desmoid tumours involve mainly the extremities or the chest wall and are usually managed by wide radical resection. Moreover, desmoid tumours involving the chest wall are locally aggressive tumours with a high recurrence rate. We report a case of a pathologically proven desmoid tumour of the chest wall in a patient with a history of bilateral breast cancer and oesophageal cancer. We discuss the imaging appearances of this tumour on positron emission tomography combined with computed tomography (PET/CT) and magnetic resonance imaging.
Souza
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Department of Radiology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney Street, Boston, MA 02115, USA. ffsouza@partners.org
Fennessy
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Yang
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van den Abbeele
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D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D018222:Desmoid Tumors / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D035441:Thoracic Wall
D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18