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ArticleFrontiers in nuclear medicine2023

Case Report: Post-traumatic splenosis and potential pitfall for PSMA-PET.

Marina Nearchou, Elizabeth Georgiou, Alexis Vrachimis, Konstantinos Ferentinos, Iosif Strouthos

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Article in Frontiers in nuclear medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Marina NearchouDepartment of Radiation Oncology, German Oncology Centre, University Hospital of the European University, Limassol, Cyprus.
Elizabeth GeorgiouDepartment of Radiation Oncology, German Oncology Centre, University Hospital of the European University, Limassol, Cyprus.
Alexis VrachimisDepartment of Nuclear Medicine, German Oncology Centre, University Hospital of the European University, Limassol, Cyprus.
Konstantinos FerentinosDepartment of Radiation Oncology, German Oncology Centre, University Hospital of the European University, Limassol, Cyprus.
Iosif StrouthosDepartment of Radiation Oncology, German Oncology Centre, University Hospital of the European University, Limassol, Cyprus.

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Abstract

Background: 18F-prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET is fast becoming the gold-standard in prostate cancer, both in staging of intermediate-/high-risk patients and in re-staging patients with biochemical failure. Several pitfalls of 18F-PSMA PET have been reported, and we report, to our best of knowledge, for the first time, a case which could have been falsely diagnosed as peritoneal spread. Case presentation: A 67-year-old patient with high-risk prostate cancer underwent staging with 18F-PSMA-1007 PET/CT (PSMA-PET/CT). PSMA-PET/CT revealed a histologically confirmed prostatic malignancy in the peripheral left zone. Unexpectedly, additional multiple highly PSMA-expressing intraabdominal formations were discovered. Based on apparent anatomic asplenia and a history of traumatic splenic rapture during childhood, a suspicion of post-traumatic splenosis was raised. For further non-invasive evaluation, a C-99 sulphur colloid scintigraphy with SPECT was conducted, confirming the presence of multiple functional ectopic splenic tissues. This is, to our best of knowledge, the first case utilising 18F-PSMA-1007-PET/CT and 99mTc-sulphur colloid SPECT to detect intraabdominal splenosis, highlighting the high potential of nuclear medicine in such trivial cases.

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18F-PSMA PET/CT99mTc-sulphur colloid SPECTectopic splenic tissuefalse positiveprostate cancersplenosis

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