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Case Reports
. 2015 Jan-Mar;30(1):75-7.
doi: 10.4103/0972-3919.147553.

Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography in evaluation of residual intramuscular myxoma

Anand Zade  1 , Archana Ahire  2 , Shishir Shetty  3 , Sujith Rai  1 , Rajashekharrao Bokka  1 , Arokiaswamy Velumani  1 , Rasika Kabnurkar  4
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Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography in evaluation of residual intramuscular myxoma

Anand Zade et al. Indian J Nucl Med. 2015 Jan-Mar.

Abstract

Intramuscular myxoma (IM) is a rare benign neoplasm. In a patient diagnosed with IM of left thigh, we report the utility of a postoperative fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography scan in assessing the efficacy of surgical excision.

Keywords: Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose; intramuscular myxoma; positron emission tomography-computed tomography scan.

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Conflict of Interest: None declared.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the thigh demonstrated a well-defined soft tissue lesion in the left rectus femoris muscle with homogenous low signal intensity on T1-weighted sequences (a) and markedly high signal intensity on T2-weighted sequences (b). Contrast-enhanced MRIs showed heterogeneous enhancement throughout the mass (c)
Figure 2
Figure 2
Increased fluorodeoxyglucose uptake was noted in the left upper thigh on maximum intensity projected (a), coronal positron emission tomography (PET) (b) and sagittal PET (e) images. This uptake corresponds to the peripheral rim of a well circumscribed centrally hypodense soft tissue lesion with thin septation in the left rectus femoris muscle on correlative coronal and sagittal computed tomography (CT) images (c and f) and PET-CT images (d and g), respectively
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