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CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 · World J Nucl Med 2020; 19(02): 174-176
DOI: 10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_99_18
Case Report

Calcified peritoneal metastasis due to advanced ovarian cancer: Incidental finding in bone scan and single-photon emission computed tomography-computed tomography

Hadeer Elhamady
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Children Cancer Hospital, Assistant Lecturer of Nuclear Medicine, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University, Nasr City, Cairo
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Abstract

We present the case of a 51-year-old female complaining of persistent abdominal pain that started 5 months ago with recent bone pain. Abdomen-pelvic computed tomography (CT) showed a large pelvic mass raising the possibility of a malignant neoplasm. Bone scan was done to rule out bone metastases and showed extraskeletal abdominal tracer uptake with the single-photon emission CT/CT imaging showing the uptake to correspond to multiple calcified peritoneal deposits.

Keywords

Bone scan - calcified peritoneal metastases - single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography

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Publication History

Received: 04 November 2018

Accepted: 02 December 2018

Article published online:
19 April 2022

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