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<sup>68</sup>Ga PSMA Uptake at Roux-en-Y Eso-jejunostomy Junction Mimicking the Recurrence of Gastric Carcinoma in PET/CT
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VOLUME: 30 ISSUE: 1
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February 2021

68Ga PSMA Uptake at Roux-en-Y Eso-jejunostomy Junction Mimicking the Recurrence of Gastric Carcinoma in PET/CT

Mol Imaging Radionucl Ther 2021;30(1):63-66
DOI: 10.4274/mirt.galenos.2020.86729
Esra Arslan 1
Tamer Aksoy 1
Merve Cin 2
Coşkun Çakır 3
Fadime Didem Can Trabulus 3
Tevfik Fikret Çermik 1
1. University of Health and Sciences Turkey, İstanbul Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of Nuclear Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey
2. University of Health and Sciences Turkey, İstanbul Training and Research Hospital, Department of Pathology, İstanbul, Turkey
3. University of Health and Sciences Turkey, İstanbul Training and Research Hospital, Clinic of Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey
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Received Date: 10.11.2019
Accepted Date: 02.04.2020
Publish Date: 09.02.2021
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ABSTRACT

A 67-year-old male patient had undergone total gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y eso-jejunostomy 3 years ago for the treatment of tubular adenocarcinoma located at the corpus of the stomach. The patient was diagnosed with Gleason score 8 (4+4) metastatic prostate cancer during the follow-up period and received hormone therapy. Owing to his elevated prostate-specific antigen levels (77 ng/mL), his clinician referred him gallium-68 (68Ga) prostate-specific membrane antigen 11 (PSMA) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) for restaging. PET/CT showed multiple 68Ga PSMA receptor-positive skeletal lesions and linear PSMA activity at the eso-jejunostomy junction. He was then referred to undergo 18fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) PET/CT to screen for gastric carcinoma recurrence. PET/CT images demonstrated no 18F-FDG avid lesion. However, endoscopy and biopsy performed with samples from the eso-jejunostomy junction revealed superficial benign squamous epithelial fragments.

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