Solitary Extramedullary Plasmacytoma of the Parotid Gland Imaged With 18F-FDG PET/CT

• DOI: 10.1097/rlu.0b013e3182a75c95
• Publication Date: 2013-10-23T17:13:59Z
• Authors: Yazan Z. Alabed; Rajan Rakheja; Jerome Laufer
• Keywords: Salivary Gland Neoplasms; 3. Good health; 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; Positron-Emission Tomography; Humans; Parotid Gland; Female; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Aged; Plasmacytoma

A 75-year-old woman presented with a 1-year history of an enlarging mass in the left parotid gland. Biopsy revealed a parotid plasmacytoma, and the patient was referred for a staging F-FDG PET/CT to evaluate the presence of multiple myeloma bone involvement. The PET/CT scan showed intense FDG uptake in the neck mass but no FDG-avid lymphadenopathy or distant metastases. Plasmacytoma involving the parotid gland is extremely rare. We present the F-FDG PET/CT imaging of solitary parotid plasmacytoma.