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Paraneoplastic ocular sarcoidosis in the setting of recurrent rectal carcinoid tumor diagnosed by F

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

8-20-2020

Publication Title

American journal of ophthalmology case reports

Abstract

Purpose: Nuclear medicine imaging can provide a noninvasive means of distinguishing inflammatory mass lesions from oncologic intraocular tumors.

Observation: We report a case of paraneoplastic ocular sarcoidosis with choroidal mass lesions that was initially concerning for choroidal metastasis of a primary carcinoid tumor. PET CT was utilized with two different tracers to characterize the choroidal mass as being FDG-avid, consistent with a sarcoid-like lesion, and lacking the Gallium (Ga-68) DOTATAE uptake of carcinoid tumor metastases.

Conclusions and Importance: Functional imaging is valuable to distinguish clinically similar inflammatory verses oncologic intraocular pathology.

Volume

20

First Page

100887

Last Page

100887

DOI

10.1016/j.ajoc.2020.100887

ISSN

2451-9936

PubMed ID

32875163

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