Predominance and homogeneity patterns of physiological FDG accumulation in thoracic and lumbar vertebrae: suspected mechanism of "bone pseudometastasis" on FDG-PET in Japanese patients with esophageal cancer.

Td pattern was frequently seen, especially in EsoC, and was strongly associated with a heterogeneous or marginal pattern in the L. Heterogeneous marrow distribution with declined lumbar uptake is suspected as the mechanism of bone pseudometastasis.