title: Intermittent cystocele diagnosed on 18F-FDG PET/CT scan.
abstract: A 78-year-old woman was diagnosed with stage III diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, and treated with chemotherapy in 2004. Imaging follow-up was performed by serial 6-month diagnostic PET/CT scans. A PET/CT scan performed in June 2011 showed an unusual hourglass appearance of activity in the pelvis that prompted further investigation. Retrospective review of the prior diagnostic PET/CT scans revealed that the patient had a sliding bladder, located either above or below the pubococcygeal line at different imaging times, but during this scan, the bladder was "caught" moving up to its normal position.
authors.affiliation: Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA. mountzjm@upmc.edu
authors.forename: James M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Mountz
authors.forename: Gonca G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Bural
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D052858:Cystocele / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D064847:Multimodal Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18