Incidental Finding of Lipomatous Hypertrophy of the Interatrial Septum during 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography for Cervical Cancer

Alex Cheen Hoe Khoo; Siti Maisarah Binti Mohd Nasir

doi:10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_89_18

Incidental Finding of Lipomatous Hypertrophy of the Interatrial Septum during 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography for Cervical Cancer

Indian J Nucl Med. 2018 Oct-Dec;33(4):374-375. doi: 10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_89_18.

Authors

Alex Cheen Hoe Khoo¹, Siti Maisarah Binti Mohd Nasir²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Penang Adventist Hospital, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia.
² Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hospital Pulau Pinang, Malaysia.

Abstract

Lipomatous hypertrophy of the interatrial septum is a benign but less recognized pathology of the heart caused by benign fatty infiltration of the interatrial septum which most often spares the fossa ovalis. We share images of the incidentally detected fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake in the interatrial septum during the restaging of 18F-FDG positron emission tomography/computed tomography scan of cervical cancer.

Keywords: 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose; interatrial septum; lipomatous hypertrophy; positron emission tomography–computed tomography.