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Internal and external jugular vein thrombosis with marked accumulation of FDG

¹ Department of Otolaryngology, Kobe City General Hospital, Kobe, ² Yamamoto Ear Surgicenter, Osaka and ³ Institute of Biomedical Research and Innovation, Kobe, Japan

We report an unusual case of idiopathic internal and external jugular vein thrombosis. Positron emission tomography (PET) using ¹⁸F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG), which was conducted to assess subclinical malignancy, revealed intense uptake of FDG, corresponding to thrombus within the left internal and external jugular veins. Although FDG-PET is widely used in differentiating between malignant and benign diseases, we should bear in mind that this benign entity can demonstrate high accumulation of FDG.

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