18F-FDG-PET findings of rare case of nonsecretory plasmablastic myeloma.

A 61-year-old woman presented with pancytopenia and underwent a bone marrow biopsy. The patient was diagnosed with nonsecretory myeloma (plasmablastic type) based on both the bone marrow biopsy findings and her laboratory data. Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography ((18)F-FDG-PET) was performed prior to chemotherapy showing diffuse bone marrow uptake, splenic uptake, and focal uptake of the right anterior chest wall.

Improved breast cancer detection of prone breast fluorodeoxyglucose-PET in 118 patients.

Objective: To prospectively evaluate the breast cancer detection of prone breast positron emission tomography (PET) images in comparison with supine whole-body PET images.

Material And Methods: One hundred and eighteen female patients (age range 28-91 years) with 122 lesions suspected of having breast cancer underwent fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose PET for preoperative staging. After the whole-body image was acquired, prone breast PET imaging was performed.