Fig. 1

A 48 years old male patient with biopsy-proven left ribs chondrosarcoma. He was referred for primary staging of the tumor. A, B Axial CT images and C, D Axial fused PET/CT images show metabolically active FDG avid large left anterior chest wall heterogenous lesion with dense matrix calcifications and areas of breaking down with SUVmax ~ 10.4, and pulmonary nodule at right lower lung lobe with SUVmax ~ 12. According to AJCC TNM staging system, the case was staged as T2 N0 M1a (group staging IVA)