18F-Fluciclovine Uptake in a Ureterocele

Clin Nucl Med. 2021 Jan;46(1):e3-e5. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000003272.

Abstract

A 60-year-old man with prostate adenocarcinoma status post radical prostatectomy and bilateral pelvic lymph node dissection referred for restaging F-fluciclovine PET/CT due to rising serum prostate-specific antigen levels (1.1 ng/mL at that time of imaging). PET/CT images were obtained from the proximal thighs to the vertex of the skull approximately 3 to 5 minutes after the IV administration of 347.8 MBq (9.4 mCi) of F-fluciclovine. PET/CT imaging demonstrated a focus of abnormally increased F-fluciclovine uptake at the right ureterovesical junction. Subsequent MRI of the pelvis revealed that this focus corresponded to a benign ureterocele.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Biological Transport
  • Carboxylic Acids / metabolism*
  • Cyclobutanes / metabolism*
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasm Staging
  • Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography
  • Prostatectomy
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / pathology
  • Prostatic Neoplasms / surgery
  • Ureterocele / diagnostic imaging
  • Ureterocele / metabolism*
  • Ureterocele / pathology

Substances

  • Carboxylic Acids
  • Cyclobutanes
  • fluciclovine F-18