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Case Reports
. 2021 Sep 1;46(9):e469-e470.
doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000003691.

Incidental Finding of Hibernoma in Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen PET/CT

Aurélie Moreau  1 , Thierry Cruel  2 , Anne Laure Giraudet  1 , Philippe Derolland  2 , David Kryza
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Case Reports

Incidental Finding of Hibernoma in Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen PET/CT

Aurélie Moreau et al. Clin Nucl Med. .

Abstract

We reported the case of a 76-year-old man followed up since 2008 for a prostatic adenocarcinoma with pelvic and retroperitoneal nodes. He was initially treated by hormonotherapy with a good biological response. Twelve years after, he demonstrated an increased PSA level up to 10.2 ng/mL. He underwent a 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT, which shown an intense uptake by a left iliac extern mass, suspected of recurrence. The histology concluded in a hibernoma.

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Conflicts of interest and sources of funding: none declared.

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