18F-Fluoride bone positron emission tomography demonstrating changes related to finger clubbing and hypertrophic osteoarthropathy.
Hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy is manifested by clubbing and periostitis of bones. We present a very rare documentation of increased F18-sodium fluoride uptake in the distal phalanges of both hands correlating to clubbing of the fingers in a 55-year-old female patient with carcinoma of lung in whom bone positron emission tomography was performed for metastatic work-up.
Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET, American Oncology Institute, Nallagandla, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Raghava
R
Kashyap
Department of Radiotherapy, American Oncology Institute, Nallagandla, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Mirza Athar
MA
Ali
Department of Radiotherapy, American Oncology Institute, Nallagandla, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Madhusudhan
M
Nagaraju
Department of Radiotherapy, American Oncology Institute, Nallagandla, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Babaiah
B
Muntimadugu
Clubbing; F18-sodium fluoride; positron emission tomography