Active Lumbar Spondylodiscitis on [68Ga]Ga-PSMA-11 PET/CT Mimicking Bone Metastasis

Florian Rosar; Caroline Burgard; Raffaele Gargiulo; Samer Ezziddin

doi:10.3390/diagnostics13243616

Active Lumbar Spondylodiscitis on [⁶⁸Ga]Ga-PSMA-11 PET/CT Mimicking Bone Metastasis

Diagnostics (Basel). 2023 Dec 7;13(24):3616. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics13243616.

Authors

Florian Rosar¹, Caroline Burgard¹, Raffaele Gargiulo¹, Samer Ezziddin¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Saarland University, 66421 Homburg, Germany.

Abstract

We report a [⁶⁸Ga]Ga-PSMA-11 positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scan of a 71-year-old man with metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) and concomitant active lumbar spondylodiscitis, both PSMA-positive on a PET/CT scan. This interesting image should advise colleagues to consider spondylodiscitis as a differential diagnosis of PSMA-positive findings in the spine, particularly if intervertebral space and soft tissue are involved.

Keywords: PET/CT; PSMA; prostate cancer; spondylodiscitis.

Grants and funding

This research received no external funding.