Artifactual spinal metastases imaged by PET/CT: A case report

Phillip H. Kuo; David W. Cheng

Artifactual spinal metastases imaged by PET/CT: A case report

Phillip H. Kuo
, David W. Cheng

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Abstract

A 55-y-old patient with multiple myeloma presented for re-staging after chemotherapy and radiation. The patient had undergone vertebroplasty of multiple thoracic vertebrae because of painful compression fractures. The ¹⁸F-FDG PET images showed increased activity at the T8 and T10-T12 vertebral bodies. Comparison of the attenuation-corrected and non-attenuation-corrected images demonstrated that the activity was due to an artifact of attenuation correction. The CT scan correlated the sites of vertebroplasty to the 4 foci of increased uptake of ¹⁸F-FDG. The increasing use of vertebroplasty for malignant spinal fractures warrants vigilance for this artifact.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	230-231
Number of pages	2
Journal	Journal of nuclear medicine technology
Volume	33
Issue number	4
State	Published - 2005
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Artifact
CT
Myeloma
PET
Vertebroplasty

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General Medicine

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Artifactual spinal metastases imaged by PET/CT: A case report

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