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So for this very last scrollable case

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that we'll be doing together, I've actually picked something

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in the brain, which is very far away from the prostate.

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So we are not even going to kind

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of look at the prostate in this one.

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There's some mild heterogeneous uptake.

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Um, we'd be correlating with the MRI

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and also why the patient presented, but I picked this case

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because of an incidental finding.

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So even on the rotating myth,

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it's actually kind of tricky to see.

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Let's kind of dial it up and see if we can find it,

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but not so much.

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But this is a good, um, reminder that we always have

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to scroll through the entirety of our image stack regardless

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of whether or not we're looking at the prostate or not.

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Um, so the brain's still important.

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This patient has had a craniotomy,

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but if you come down here, you'll notice

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that there's some abnormal uptake.

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And this is right at the cerebellar pontine angle.

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And there is PSMA expression in an intracranial lesion,

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so cerebellum, and then we've got patchy increased uptake.

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And this is another example of A-P-S-M-A expressing lesion

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or a low grade neoplastic lesion

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and sent it at the cerebellar pontine angle with,

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unfortunately, I, the low dose CT doesn't show this as well

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as the, the fusion 'cause of some beam hardening artifact,

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but this was an example of a proven schwannoma.

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So neurogenic tumors will demonstrate

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some P sm a expression.

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So it's important to kinda keep that in mind.

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If you see an odd lesion, could this be a neurogenic tumor,

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particularly in this location

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or in the paraspinal regions with typical features?

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Um, so not all that is psma AVID is prostate cancer.

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And this is kind of similar in the vein to

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what we're seeing with ganglia.

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We see ganglia with uptake

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and so this is a peripheral nerve sheath tumor.

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Um, and a nice example, one of that.

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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