Trails on 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Leading to Diagnosis of Testicular Adrenal Rest Tumor

Raghava Kashyap

doi:10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_106_17

Trails on ¹⁸F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Leading to Diagnosis of Testicular Adrenal Rest Tumor

Indian J Nucl Med. 2018 Jan-Mar;33(1):55-56. doi: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_106_17.

Author

Raghava Kashyap¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET, Mahatma Gandhi Cancer Hospital and Research Institute, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.

Abstract

Testicular adrenal rest tumors (TARTs) are secondary to hypertrophy of adrenal rest cells in the rete testis in settings of hypersecretion of androgens. We present a case of congenital adrenal hyperplasia with TART with clues to the diagnosis on ¹⁸F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT). To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case on the role of ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT in TART.

Keywords: 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose; positron emission tomography/computed tomography; testicular adrenal rest tumor.

Publication types

Case Reports