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So in this case we're going to be starting with the rotib

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as always looking through for our physiological uptake

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and focusing on the prostate.

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And we can see underneath the bladder

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that there is this area

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of focal intense uptake in the region of the prostate.

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So immediately we wanna calibrate that with our fused data.

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So tumor nodes, metastases, we are gonna start

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with the primary site, which is prostate

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and there is some hydrogel in sit here

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with some fiducial markers coming through.

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And here we've got this intense focal uptake.

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So I could put an SUV measurement on there.

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I estimate it to be greater than 12.

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So we put thinking about a primary score

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if that's what we were doing.

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Um, it's in the um, the central gland kind

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of almost at the anterior fibromuscular stroma.

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Um, and it's to the right of the midline.

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So it is actually kind

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of these midline lesions are really important

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to think about their location

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because if the ureter is there in the middle, um, it's it

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consideration for our radiation oncology, um,

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colleagues when they contour these for therapy,

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I would probably describe this one

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as focal intense uptake in the

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prostate apex anteriorly to the right of the midline,

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but crossing the midline to the left.

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Um, and then I say there's my heterogeneous uptake elsewhere

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or I might just not mention it at all.

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And this kind of is this kind

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of pattern up here at the base, you know,

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it's benign symmetrical, it's sparing the peripheral gland.

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I'm not too concerned about it.

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So I'm happy that this is a primary tumor.

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If I had an MR, I would be correlating with those results

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and then I'd be looking through systematically

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through the lymph nodes, through the external iliac

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following those vessels up, really interrogating

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those pelvic sidewalls.

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And interestingly in this one, this is the ureter here.

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I can see there's bright contrast in it.

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There's some mild non-specific uptake there correlating

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with this lymph node here.

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And I would probably describe that in my report mildly avid.

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Considered non-specific. I wouldn't say any uptake equals

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and involve lymph node.

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I think that would be over calling a lot of lymph nodes

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because we do know that PSMA uptake can be seen in some

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reactive pathology

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and coming all the way up looking

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through the retroperitoneum.

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And then I'd be systematically looking

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through then adjusting my liver

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and looking through the skeleton for science

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of metastatic disease, which were not present on this study.

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Faculty

Sally Ayesa, MD, MSc, MBBS, FRANZCR, FAANMS

Lecturer, Radiologist & Nuclear Medicine Specialist

University of Sydney & NSW Health

Tags

Prostate/seminal vesicles

PET/CT PSMA

Oncologic Imaging

Nuclear Medicine

Neoplastic

Genitourinary (GU)

Body