Positron emission tomography: a false negative result in cystic encephalic mestastases from a small cell bronchial carcinoma.

Autor: Orts Giménez D; Department of Internal Medicine, Elda General Hospital, Alicante, Spain. orts_dav@gva.es, Jiménez Yáñez R, Galán Dávila A, Esquerdo Galiana G, Llorca Martínez E, Belso Candela A, Mallada J, Llorca Ferrándiz C, Cervera JM
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico [Clin Transl Oncol] 2006 Aug; Vol. 8 (8), pp. 618-20.
DOI: 10.1007/s12094-006-0070-4
Abstrakt: Lung cancer represents one of the most common malignant diseases. Many investigations are used in the staging study including, most recently, PET. We present a case of cystic cerebral metastases (with no oedema) from a small cell carcinoma which were not detected by PET.
Databáze: MEDLINE