Extensive Extramedullary Hematopoiesis in Thalassemia: Soft Tissue Uptake on 99mTc-MDP SPECT/CT

Sharjeel Usmani 1, Najeeb Ahmed 2, Samreen Muzaffar 2, Fareeda Al Kandari 1

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01 October 2020

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doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000003191

Abstract

We report the case of a 45-year-old man with thalassemia major referred for a bone scan as a workup for generalized bone pain. Tc-MDP SPECT CT showed multiple elongated soft tissue masses along the inner aspects of ribs and along both sides of dorsal spine with calcification and mild tracer uptake. There was also a large lobulated presacral soft tissue mass displacing the bladder and involving the adjacent pelvic bone. Biopsy of mildly avid tracer uptake in pelvic soft tissue mass was extramedullary hematopoiesis confirmed by biopsy.

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