A 46-year-old female breast cancer patient received FDG PET/CT scan for preoperative survey. In addition to the hypermetabolism in the known left breast cancerous lesion, there was also a moderate hypermetabolic spot in the T3-level spinal canal. She denied neither upper back pain nor any neurological deficits. Following MRI showed a 2cm intradural extramedullary homogenous enhancing nodule in T3-level spinal canal, deviating thoracic cord to the right. She received laminectomy for surgical removal and tissue proof of the spinal canal lesion, with pathology reveling schwannoma.
一位46歲女性乳癌患者接受術前的氟-18去氧葡萄糖正子電腦斷層造影(F-18 FDG PET/CT)。除了在已知的左乳癌發現葡萄糖吸收增加病灶外,還在第三節胸椎高度的脊管內發現個中等程度的葡萄糖吸收增加亮點。病患否認有上背痛或神經功能障礙。核磁共振在第三節胸椎高度的脊管發現一個顯影良好的硬腦膜內脊髓外結節,將胸髓擠到右側。為了手術切除及病理確定此脊管內病灶,病患至其他醫院接受椎板切除手術,最後病理報告為許旺細胞瘤。