Nucl Med Mol Imaging.
2010 Dec;44(4):290-293.
Ovarian Mass Mimicking Malignancy: A Case Report
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- 1Hospital and Research Institute, National Cancer Center, Goyang, Korea.
- 2Department of Nuclear Medicine, National Cancer Center, Madu 1-dong, Ilsandong-gu, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do 410-769, Korea. skkim@ncc.re.kr
Abstract
- A 32-year-old female who suffered from abdominal pain underwent 18F-fluorodexoyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) for the diagnostic workup of pelvic mass lesions. Cystic mass lesions in the bilateral ovaries showed wall thickening and intense hypermetabolism along the rim. In addition, multifocal intense hypermetabolic lymphadenopathies were seen in the left paraaortic lymph node (LN), aortocaval LN, and both common iliac LNs. We interpreted these findings as bilateral ovarian cancer with retroperitoneal metastatic lymphadenopathies rather than endometriosis with reactive lymphadenopathies. However, histopathological examination confirmed the ovarian mass lesions as tubo-ovarian abscesses. We report a case that even if simultaneous hypermetabolic retroperitoneal LNs are seen, intense hypermetabolic lesions in both ovaries can be in consequence of inflammatory change.
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