Plasmacytoma of the ovary: additional role of 18F-FDG PET/CT.

Sampath Santhosh, Bhagwant Rai Mittal, Ainharan Raveendran, Vanita Jain, Raje Nijhawan, Ritesh Kumar, Anish Bhattacharya, Suresh C Sharma

Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.

Clinical nuclear medicine 2013 May

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We report a case of ovarian plasmacytomas where 18F-FDG PET/CT helped in staging by demonstrating increased FDG uptake limited to the ovary, and hence, surgical treatment was carried out as the disease was localized to the ovary.

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Sampath Santhosh, Bhagwant Rai Mittal, Ainharan Raveendran, Vanita Jain, Raje Nijhawan, Ritesh Kumar, Anish Bhattacharya, Suresh C Sharma. Plasmacytoma of the ovary: additional role of 18F-FDG PET/CT. Clinical nuclear medicine. 2013 May;38(5):e230-2