Askin's Tumor a Rare Clinical Entity of Thoracopulmonary Region Cresenting as a Case of Paraparesis: Findings on 18F-FDG PET/CT

Kalpa Jyoti Das; Akash Kumar; Sneha Prakash; Abhinav Singhal

doi:10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_181_22

Askin's Tumor a Rare Clinical Entity of Thoracopulmonary Region Cresenting as a Case of Paraparesis: Findings on ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT

Indian J Nucl Med. 2023 Apr-Jun;38(2):148-150. doi: 10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_181_22. Epub 2023 Jun 8.

Authors

Kalpa Jyoti Das¹, Akash Kumar², Sneha Prakash¹, Abhinav Singhal¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nuclear Medicine, National Cancer Institute, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jhajjar, Haryana, India.
² Department of Medical Oncology, National Cancer Institute, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jhajjar, Haryana, India.

Abstract

Askin's tumors are rare malignant neoplasms located in the thoracopulmonary region and mainly occur in children and adolescents. In this report, we describe a case of histologically proven Askin's tumor in a 24-year-old male. The patient was admitted with a history of 3-month lower back pain and with a rare presentation of paraparesis.

Keywords: Askin’s tumor; Ewing’s sarcoma family of tumors; fluorodeoxyglucose; fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography; paraparesis; peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumor.

Publication types

Case Reports