A Rare Case of Urachal Carcinoma Metastatic to Thoracic Vertebra Detected by FDG PET/CT. (July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Yang, Guangjie; Wang, Zhenguang; Liu, Simin; Wu, Fengyu; Li, Dacheng
• Is Part Of: Clinical nuclear medicine. Volume 42:Number 7(2017)
• Publication Date: 2017-07
• Subjects: bone metastasis -- FDG PET/CT -- urachal carcinoma; Nuclear medicine -- Periodicals; Radioisotope scanning -- Periodicals; Nuclear Medicine -- Periodicals; 616.07575
• DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000001680
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0363-9762

Abstract

Abstract : Abstract: Both chest radiography and MRI scan showed compression fracture of the T6 vertebral body in a 33-year-old man who presented with back pain. Because of the absence of predisposing factors for compression fracture, a pathologic fracture was considered. For this reason, an FDG PET/CT was performed. The images revealed not only the abnormal activity in the known T6 vertebral body but also an additional activity immediately anterosuperior to the urinary bladder in a partially calcified soft tissue nodule. A mucinous adenocarcinoma of urachus with solitary bone metastasis was confirmed histopathologically.