Case report. PET/CT appearance of desmoid tumour of the chest wall.

Desmoid tumours are rare, poorly circumscribed tumours that have a firm consistency and, although benign, have a remarkable tendency to infiltrate into surrounding structures. Extra-abdominal desmoid tumours involve mainly the extremities or the chest wall and are usually managed by wide radical resection. Moreover, desmoid tumours involving the chest wall are locally aggressive tumours with a high recurrence rate. We report a case of a pathologically proven desmoid tumour of the chest wall in a patient with a history of bilateral breast cancer and oesophageal cancer. We discuss the imaging appearances of this tumour on positron emission tomography combined with computed tomography (PET/CT) and magnetic resonance imaging.

[1]  U. Tateishi,et al.  Bone and soft-tissue sarcoma: preoperative staging with fluorine 18 fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT and conventional imaging. , 2007, Radiology.

[2]  S. Basu,et al.  Uptake characteristics of fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) in deep fibromatosis and abdominal desmoids: potential clinical role of FDG-PET in the management. , 2007, The British journal of radiology.

[3]  N. Muller,et al.  Soft tissue tumours and mass-like lesions of the chest wall: a pictorial review of CT and MR findings. , 2007, The British journal of radiology.

[4]  David A Mankoff,et al.  Evolving role of positron emission tomography in breast cancer imaging. , 2005, Seminars in nuclear medicine.

[5]  R. Henderson,et al.  Hypermetabolism of elastofibroma dorsi on PET-CT. , 2004, AJR. American journal of roentgenology.

[6]  G. Gladish,et al.  Chest wall tumors: radiologic findings and pathologic correlation: part 2. Malignant tumors. , 2003, Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc.

[7]  G. Gladish,et al.  Chest wall tumors: radiologic findings and pathologic correlation: part 1. Benign tumors. , 2003, Radiographics : a review publication of the Radiological Society of North America, Inc.

[8]  P. Allen,et al.  Desmoid tumors of the chest wall. , 1999, Seminars in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery.

[9]  H. Nishizawa,et al.  [A desmoid tumor of the chest wall]. , 1998, Kyobu geka. The Japanese journal of thoracic surgery.

[10]  P. Dartevelle,et al.  Radical resection of radiation-induced sarcoma of the chest wall: report of 15 cases. , 1997, The Annals of thoracic surgery.

[11]  H. Domínguez-Malagón,et al.  Clinical and cellular effects of colchicine in fibromatosis , 1992, Cancer.

[12]  C. J. Rosenthal,et al.  Remission of rapidly growing desmoid tumors after tamoxifen therapy. , 1983, Cancer.

[13]  D. L. Klein,et al.  Intrathoracic desmoid tumor of the chest wall. , 1977, AJR. American journal of roentgenology.