Affiliations 

  • 1 From the Departments of Nuclear Medicine
  • 2 Oncology, Penang Adventist Hospital, George Town, Penang, Malaysia
Clin Nucl Med, 2019 Oct;44(10):808-809.
PMID: 31348083 DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000002739

Abstract

Extramammary Paget's disease (EMPD) is a rare disease with an estimated prevalence of 0.1 to 2.4 per 1,000,000 person-years. Metastatic EMPD has a poor prognosis with a 5-year survival of approximately 7%. Local therapy is the only curative option with surgery being recommended for resectable disease. It is therefore crucial to be able to stage such patients appropriately. The utility of F-FDG PET/CT for this disease is not well established. We share a case on how F-FDG PET/CT was used to stage metastatic EMPD.

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