Unilateral pulmonary metastases from Ewing's sarcoma shown in a technetium-99m-methylene-diphosphonate bone scan

Ali Gholamrezanezhad; Davoud Moinian; Sahar Mirpour; Hadi Hajimohammadi

Unilateral pulmonary metastases from Ewing's sarcoma shown in a technetium-99m-methylene-diphosphonate bone scan

Ali Gholamrezanezhad, Davoud Moinian, Sahar Mirpour, Hadi Hajimohammadi

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Abstract

A 32-year-old man with a history of painful swelling of the right ankle underwent bone scintigraphy, which showed increased uptake in the right ankle and also unexpected diffuse uptake throughout the right hemithorax. A single photon emission tomography scan performed after the intravenous injection of 740 MBq of technetium-99m methylene-diphosphonate (^99mTc-MDP) showed abnormal uptake throughout the right lung. Computed tomography (CT) revealed a large mass in the right lower lobe. CT-guided biopsy of this mass led to a diagnosis of metastatic Ewing's sarcoma. Although lung uptake on bone scans has been noted in various occasions (such as: pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, and various tumoral lesions), increased uptake of ^99mTc-MDP in lung metastases of Ewing's sarcoma has not been reported according to our knowledge until now. We report such a case.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	181-183
Number of pages	3
Journal	Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine
Volume	9
Issue number	3
State	Published - Sep 2006
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Bone scintigraphy
Ewing's sarcoma
Lung uptake
Metastases
Tc-MDP

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Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging

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Unilateral pulmonary metastases from Ewing's sarcoma shown in a technetium-99m-methylene-diphosphonate bone scan

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