Gosavi Atul, Shah Sneha, Purandare Nilendu C, Puranik Ameya, Agrawal Archi, Rangarajan Venkatesh
Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Homi Bhabha National Institute, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Indian J Nucl Med. 2022 Jan-Mar;37(1):68-70. doi: 10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_118_21. Epub 2022 Mar 25.
Benign metastasizing leiomyoma is a rare condition where benign smooth muscle tumors having a histological appearance similar to uterine leiomyoma are present at distant sites. This entity is commonly associated with a past history of hysterectomy done for uterine fibroids. The knowledge of the presence of significant fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in leiomyoma helped in the diagnosis of this condition in a 47-year-old patient who being evaluated for multiple unusual sites of metastases; this was further confirmed on histopathology.
良性转移性平滑肌瘤是一种罕见病症，即远处部位出现组织学表现类似于子宫平滑肌瘤的良性平滑肌肿瘤。该实体通常与既往因子宫肌瘤行子宫切除术的病史相关。平滑肌瘤中存在显著氟脱氧葡萄糖摄取这一认识，有助于对一名47岁患者进行诊断，该患者因多处出现异常转移部位而接受评估；组织病理学进一步证实了这一诊断。
