title: Solitary extramedullary plasmacytoma of the parotid gland imaged with 18F-FDG PET/CT.
abstract: A 75-year-old woman presented with a 1-year history of an enlarging mass in the left parotid gland. Biopsy revealed a parotid plasmacytoma, and the patient was referred for a staging F-FDG PET/CT to evaluate the presence of multiple myeloma bone involvement. The PET/CT scan showed intense FDG uptake in the neck mass but no FDG-avid lymphadenopathy or distant metastases. Plasmacytoma involving the parotid gland is extremely rare. We present the F-FDG PET/CT imaging of solitary parotid plasmacytoma.
authors.affiliation: From the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
authors.forename: Yazan Z
authors.initials: YZ
authors.lastname: Alabed
authors.forename: Rajan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Rakheja
authors.forename: Jerome
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Laufer
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D010306:Parotid Gland / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D010954:Plasmacytoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D012468:Salivary Gland Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18