Coincidental presentations of ganglioneuroma and atypical perforated appendicitis detected by fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography. uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • An 11-year-old boy presented with acute nausea and right lower quadrant pain. A contrast-enhanced CT demonstrated a 10-cm left retroperitoneal mass and no other suspicious findings. An fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography performed 2 days later demonstrated inflammatory findings in the region of the appendix, hypermetabolic right psoas adenopathy, and the known retroperitoneal mass, which was less hypermetabolic. At laparoscopic surgery, an acute perforated appendicitis, walled-off by omentum, was discovered. Biopsy of the retroperitoneal mass was compatible with ganglioneuroma. This case exemplifies the utility of fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography for detecting an inflammatory or infectious process coincident with a neighboring neoplastic process.

publication date

  • October 1, 2009

Research

keywords

  • Appendicitis
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
  • Ganglioneuroma
  • Positron-Emission Tomography
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 70349748806

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3181b53830

PubMed ID

  • 19893413

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 34

issue

  • 10