title: 18F-FDG PET/CT findings of a recurrent adenocarcinoma arising from malignant transformation of abdominal wall endometriosis.
abstract: Abdominal wall endometriosis (AWE) is defined as endometrial tissue located superficial to the peritoneum, which usually develops in a surgical scar of cesarean delivery. Malignant transformation of AWE is a very rare disease. The most frequent histotype of malignancy developing from AWE is endometrioid adenocarcinoma. We present F-FDG PET/CT findings in a 37-year-old woman with a recurrent adenocarcinoma arising from malignant transformation of AWE, who underwent a repeat PET/CT scan because of a recurrent mass at the upper right side of the surgical incision after a previous cesarean delivery.
authors.affiliation: From the Departments of *Radiology, and †Nephrology, Ningbo First Hospital, Ningbo; and ‡Department of Nuclear Medicine, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.
authors.forename: Maoqing
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jiang
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Long
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Qiuli
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Hua
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wu
mesh_terms: D034861:Abdominal Wall / Q000473:pathology; D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D000328:Adult; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic; D016889:Endometrial Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D004715:Endometriosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18