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ArticleInsights into imaging2021

Giant cell tumour of the tendon sheath of the spine: clinical features and imaging findings.

Piaoe Zeng, Annan Zhang, Le Song, Jianfang Liu, Huishu Yuan, Weifang Zhang

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Article in Insights into imaging, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 6 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Piaoe Zeng *Department of Radiology, Peking University Third Hospital, 49 North Garden Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100191, China.
Annan Zhang *Department of Nuclear Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital, 49 North Garden Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100191, China.
Le SongDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital, 49 North Garden Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100191, China.
Jianfang LiuDepartment of Radiology, Peking University Third Hospital, 49 North Garden Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100191, China.
Huishu YuanDepartment of Radiology, Peking University Third Hospital, 49 North Garden Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100191, China. huishuy@bjmu.edu.cn.
Weifang ZhangDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, Peking University Third Hospital, 49 North Garden Road, Haidian District, Beijing, 100191, China. tsy1997@126.com.
Peking University · CNPeking University Third Hospital · CN

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China 81471634National Natural Science Foundation of China 81871326Natural Science Foundation of Beijing Municipality (CN) L182054
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectivesTo review the clinical and imaging data of spinal giant cell tumour of the tendon sheath (GCTTS) to improve our understanding of the disease.

methodsThe imaging findings, clinicopathological features and clinical outcomes of 14 patients with pathologically confirmed spinal GCTTS were analysed retrospectively.

resultsAll 14 patients had a single spinal lesion, including ten cervical vertebra lesions and four thoracic vertebra lesions. CT scan findings: The lesions showed osteolytic bone destruction and were centred on the facet joint, eroding the surrounding bone with a paravertebral soft tissue mass. MRI scan findings: all the lesions manifested predominantly as isointense or hypointense on T1-weighted imaging (T1WI). On T2-weighted imaging (T2WI), eight lesions were hypointense, and four were isointense. The remaining two lesions showed slight hyperintensity. The enhanced scans of eight lesions showed moderate to marked homogeneous or heterogeneous enhancement. PET/CT findings: Among the five patients who underwent PET/CT, three presented lesions with well-defined, sclerotic borders, and the uptake of

conclusionsSpinal GCTTS is extremely rare. Osteolytic bone destruction in the area of the facet joint with a soft tissue mass and hypointensity on T2WI images are indicative of the spinal GCTTS. GCTTS shows high uptake of

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Giant cell tumor of tendon sheathMagnetic resonance imagingPositron emission tomography-computed tomographySpineTomography (X-ray computed)

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PMID34255196
PMCPMC8276893
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