title: [¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT and small bowel endoscopy in a patient with small bowel leiomyoma].
abstract: A 49-year-old man was admitted to our hospital because of recurrent gastrointestinal bleeding of unknown origin, after repeated negative endoscopic and radiographic evaluation, including colonoscopy, esophago-gastro-duodenoscopy, CT and angiography. His condition had not been diagnosed for the past 18 years. ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) on positron emission tomography (PET/CT) showed mild FDG uptake by a tumor of the small bowel (SUVmax 2.83), and capsule endoscopy (CE) and double balloon endoscopy (DBE) revealed a well-defined smooth submucosal tumor in the jejunum. The patient underwent a laparotomy and small bowel resection. The pathologic diagnosis was a small intestinal leiomyoma. Our report suggests the significance of combination of CE, DBE and PET/CT in the diagnosis of small bowel leiomyoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Gastroenterology, Dokkyo Medical University. maedas42@dokkyomed.ac.jp
authors.forename: Mitsunori
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Maeda
authors.forename: Kazunari
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kanke
authors.forename: Takako
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sasai
authors.forename: Youko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chibana
authors.forename: Mina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hoshino
authors.forename: Takeshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sugaya
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Katou
authors.forename: Hideyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hiraishi
mesh_terms: D053704:Capsule Endoscopy; D058582:Double-Balloon Enteroscopy; D004379:Duodenal Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D016099:Endoscopy, Gastrointestinal; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D007889:Leiomyoma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18