SPECT/CT of Metastatic Struma Ovarii

ABSTRACTA 41-year-old woman presented with multiple right lower quadrant masses which were removed and consistent with metastatic follicular thyroid cancer. Thyroidectomy revealed no primary malignancy and evaluation of her ovaries was positive for struma ovarii. The patient was diagnosed with metas...

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Published in:Clinical nuclear medicine 2014-02, Vol.39 (2), p.186-187
Main Authors: Koo, Phillip J, Klingensmith, William C, Bagrosky, Brian M, Haugen, Bryan R
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Female
Humans
Multimodal Imaging
Neoplasm Metastasis
Ovarian Neoplasms - diagnosis
Ovarian Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging
Ovarian Neoplasms - pathology
Struma Ovarii - diagnosis
Struma Ovarii - diagnostic imaging
Struma Ovarii - pathology
Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Summary:ABSTRACTA 41-year-old woman presented with multiple right lower quadrant masses which were removed and consistent with metastatic follicular thyroid cancer. Thyroidectomy revealed no primary malignancy and evaluation of her ovaries was positive for struma ovarii. The patient was diagnosed with metastatic struma ovarii stage IV. Nine days following the patient’s second therapy with I for recurrent disease, planar and SPECT/CT imaging demonstrated multiple I avid peritoneal nodules. At least one of them, located along the medial margin of the spleen, would have been difficult to diagnose without hybrid SPECT/CT imaging.
ISSN:0363-9762
1536-0229
DOI:10.1097/RLU.0b013e3182995971