18F-FDG PET/CT Imaging of Sister Mary Josephʼs Nodule

An 82-year-old woman was followed up for an uterine cervical adenocarcinoma treated by surgery. A whole-body fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography study revealed a pathologic fluorodeoxyglucose uptake located in the umbilicus associated to peritoneal carcinomatosis. Biopsy of the umbilical...

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Published in:Clinical nuclear medicine 2012-05, Vol.37 (5), p.486-488
Main Authors: Métivier, Denis, Bonardel, Gérald, Rouquie, Delphine, Gontier, Eric, Chargari, Cyrus, Dechaud, Céline, Foehrenbach, Hervé, Chapuis, Olivier
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aged, 80 and over
Female
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Humans
Multimodal Imaging
Positron-Emission Tomography
Sister Mary Joseph's Nodule - diagnostic imaging
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Summary:An 82-year-old woman was followed up for an uterine cervical adenocarcinoma treated by surgery. A whole-body fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography study revealed a pathologic fluorodeoxyglucose uptake located in the umbilicus associated to peritoneal carcinomatosis. Biopsy of the umbilical nodule demonstrated an umbilical metastasis from the uterine adenocarcinoma, the so-called “Sister Mary Josephʼs nodule.”
ISSN:0363-9762
1536-0229
DOI:10.1097/RLU.0b013e3182443b0f