Gouty tophus of the patella evaluated by PET imaging |
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| Authors: | Junko Sato Hideomi Watanabe Tetsuya Shinozaki Toshio Fukuda Kenji Shirakura Kenji Takagishi |
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| Institution: | (1) Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Gunma University Faculty of Medicine, 3-39-22 Showa, Maebashi, Gunma 371-8511, Japan, JP;(2) Department of Laboratory Sciences and Pathology, Gunma University School of Health Sciences, 3-39-22 Showa, Maebashi, Gunma 371-8511, Japan, JP |
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| Abstract: | We report a case of gouty tophus of the patella, a rare lesion, which was evaluated using positron emission tomography (PET).
This modality, which uses a combination of an amino-acid analog emitter, l-3-18F]-alpha-methyl tyrosine (FMT), which neglects malignancies, and a glucose analog emitter, 18F-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose (FDG), which neglects benign lesions, simulating the radiographic findings, may be useful for the preoperative evaluation
of gouty tophus occurring in patella partita, including detection, differentiation from malignant tumors, and possible pathogenetic
diagnosis.
Received: April 12, 2001 / Accepted: July 11, 2001 |
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| Keywords: | Gout Patella PET FDG FMT |
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