title: Adolescent With 68Ga DOTATATE-Avid Vertebral Hemangioma Mimicking Metastasis in PET Imaging.
abstract: ⁶⁸Ga DOTATATE PET/CT is a well-established method in the diagnostic workup of neuroendocrine tumors. We report the case of a 15-year-old adolescent boy with histologically proven appendiceal carcinoid tumor referred for ⁶⁸Ga DOTATATE PET/CT to identify residual or metastatic disease. PET images showed increased tracer uptake in the body of T4 vertebra. This uptake could be misdiagnosed for bone metastasis, but CT characteristic appearance was in keeping with vertebral hemangioma. Both bone metastasis in carcinoid tumor and bone hemangiomas in adolescents are rare conditions, but the combined metabolic and morphological information on PET/CT can lead to the correct diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: From the Institute of Nuclear Medicine, University College Hospitals NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Evangelia
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Skoura
authors.forename: Alshaima
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alshammari
authors.forename: Rizwan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Syed
authors.forename: Rakesh
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sajjan
authors.forename: Jamshed
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bomanji
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002276:Carcinoid Tumor / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006391:Hemangioma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D018358:Neuroendocrine Tumors / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D009942:Organometallic Compounds; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D013125:Spinal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D009942:Organometallic Compounds; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; C513399:gallium Ga 68 dotatate