Clinical nuclear medicine
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Clinical nuclear medicine · Mar 2010
Case ReportsMetastatic colon cancer to the lung with no detectable primary tumor, mimicking advanced primary lung cancer on F-18 FDG PET/CT imaging.
An 83-year-old man was referred with a right lung mass on dynamic chest computed tomography (CT). F-18 fluoro-deoxy-glucose positron emission tomography (FDG PET)/CT showed intense FDG uptake in the right lung mass and bilateral hypermetabolic mediastinal lymph nodes. CT-guided biopsy of the right lung mass revealed metastatic adenocarcinoma from the colon, but a colon cancer lesion was not detected by dynamic abdominal CT and colonoscopy.
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Clinical nuclear medicine · Dec 2009
Review Clinical TrialFDG PET-CT in the management of primary breast lymphoma.
Primary breast lymphoma (PBL) is a rare disease and its management differs from other breast cancers. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the role of FDG PET-CT in the management of PBL. We carried out 16 PET-CT scans and reviewed the literature. ⋯ FDG PET-CT has a definitive role in every step of management (diagnosis, staging, treatment response evaluation, and detection of recurrence) in patients with primary breast lymphoma.