The Curious Case of the Missing Limb on FDG PET Imaging-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The Curious Case of the Missing Limb on FDG PET Imaging

Published:2023-12-28 Issue:2 Volume:49 Page:185-187
ISSN:1536-0229
Container-title:Clinical Nuclear Medicine
language:en
Short-container-title:Clin Nucl Med

Author:

Tay Wan Jiun¹,Teh Daniel Jing Wen²,Qin Yan³,Lam Winnie Wing-Chuen¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Singapore General Hospital

2. Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital

3. Department of Internal Medicine, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.

Abstract

Abstract A 58-year-old woman with poorly controlled diabetes, peripheral vascular disease, and end-stage renal disease requiring hemodialysis was referred for 18F-FDG PET/CT to evaluate for source of sepsis. She had history of prior left forefoot and right second toe amputation, as well as left lower-limb dry gangrene for which she declined surgical management. We present a case of a nonamputated lower limb demonstrating regions of absolute photopenia, consistent with dry gangrene.

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

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