title: Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG PET/CT) for the detection of skeletal muscle and skin metastases in uterine leiomyosarcoma: a case report.
abstract: We report the clinical value of FDG PET/CT imaging in a 57-year-old woman who was diagnosed with uterine leimyosarcoma 6 years ago. In a staging procedure, whole body FDG PET/CT discloses the presence of both local recurrence and remote metastases at widespread musculocutaneous sites, liver and femur. With its advantage of scanning the whole body in a single procedure, we propose the use of PET/CT imaging for the evaluation of patients with uterine leimyosarcomas, a tumor with a propensity for widespread hematogenous spread to unusual sites.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Atatürk Research and Training Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. ecingi@yahoo.com
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Ozdemir
authors.forename: N Yıldırım
authors.initials: NY
authors.lastname: Poyraz
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Uzun
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Türkölmez
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D007890:Leiomyosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary*; D008875:Middle Aged; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D019042:Muscle Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary*; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000556:secondary*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18