68Ga-PSMA PET/CT False-Positive Tracer Uptake in Paget Disease.

Clin Nucl Med

From the KIMS-DDNMRC, KIMS Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India.

Published: October 2016

65-year-old man with left-sided pelvic pain on evaluation was found to have features suggestive of either Paget disease or prostatic bone metastasis of the left hemipelvis based on Tc-MDP bone scan and MRI. Ga-PSMA PET/CT to assess the possibility of primary prostate cancer and if present to stage it helped to rule out prostate cancer because of absence of focal abnormal increased tracer uptake in the prostate gland. However, false-positive tracer uptake was noted in the left hemipelvis, which was subject to biopsy and histopathologically proven to be Paget disease involvement.

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