Granulomatous prostatitis is a potential complication of intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) immunotherapy for urinary bladder cancer and may affect interpretation of fluorine-18-fuorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography and computed tomography (F-18 FDG PET/CT) as suggested by only a few case reports in the literature. We reported a 79-year-old male patient with a history of urinary bladder urothelial carcinoma post transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) and intravesical BCG therapy. The post-therapy F-18 FDG PET/ CT showed a remarkable hypermetabolic lesion in the prostate gland and malignancy was suspected by both F-18 FDG PET/CT and transrectal ultrasonography (TRUS). Biopsy of the prostate gland revealed granulomatous inflammation without evidence of malignancy. The follow-up F-18 FDG PET/CT showed remarkable regression of the hypermetabolic lesion.
肉芽腫性攝護腺炎是一種膀胱癌卡介苗灌注免疫治療後的併發症,並會影響影像檢查判讀。目前確診並記載氟化去氧葡萄糖正子影像的案例並不多。本案例報告一位79 歲男性膀胱癌患者,接受膀胱腫瘤切除手術以及卡介苗灌注治療後,首次接受氟化去氧葡萄糖正子造影時,在攝護腺發現一明顯高代謝局部病灶,正子造影與經直腸超音波檢查皆懷疑其為惡性,病理切片診斷為肉芽腫性攝護腺炎、並非惡性腫瘤,後續正子造影追蹤顯示原病灶之氟化去氧葡萄糖攝取明顯降低。