An atypical case of IgG4-related sclerosing pancreatitis on PET/CT imaging

Clin Nucl Med. 2014 Mar;39(3):e236-8. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3182816752.

Abstract

A 62-year-old man presented with pain in the upper abdomen persisting for 2 months. He had the clinical history of diabetes for approximately 10 years. CT and MRI showed a mass located in processus uncinatus of caput pancreatis. The laboratory tests, including pancreas-originated amylase, tumor marker, IgG, IgG4, and so on, were normal. For suspicion of pancreatic cancer, the patient underwent F-FDG PET/CT, which demonstrated focal and high radioactivity accumulation in processus uncinatus of pancreas, without extrapancreatic radioactivity uptake observed. Finally, the surgical pathology confirmed IgG4-related sclerosing pancreatitis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Immunoglobulin G / immunology*
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Multimodal Imaging*
  • Pancreatitis / diagnostic imaging*
  • Pancreatitis / pathology
  • Positron-Emission Tomography*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed*

Substances

  • Immunoglobulin G