title: Malignant epithelioid hemangioendothelioma of the lower extremity: staging with F-18 FDG PET/CT.
abstract: A 36-year-old woman presented with a 5-month history of a growing left thigh mass, causing difficulty walking. Biopsy revealed a malignant epithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EHE), and the patient was referred for a staging F-18 FDG PET/CT that showed intense FDG uptake in the thigh mass, but no FDG-avid local lymph nodes or distant metastases. A few reports have noted the usefulness of F-18 FDG PET/CT imaging in the staging of EHEs in the lung, liver, and bone marrow. This rare study highlights the usefulness of F-18 FDG PET/CT in the staging of malignant EHE of the soft tissues of the extremities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Brandon Regional Health Centre, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. makisw79@yahoo.com
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Makis
authors.forename: Anthony
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ciarallo
authors.forename: Ayoub
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nahal
authors.forename: Vilma
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Derbekyan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D018323:Hemangioendothelioma, Epithelioid / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D013848:Thigh / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18