| Autor: |
Epstude M; Departments of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology, Cantonal Hospital Lucerne, Lucerne, Switzerland., Tornquist K, Riklin C, di Lenardo F, Winterhalder R, Hug U, Strobel K |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Clinical nuclear medicine [Clin Nucl Med] 2013 Apr; Vol. 38 (4), pp. 283-4. |
| DOI: |
10.1097/RLU.0b013e318281658e |
| Abstrakt: |
Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare but very aggressive neuroendocrine tumor of the skin in elderly patients with higher mortality compared with melanoma. No evidence-based standardized chemotherapy exists for metastasized patients.We report the case of an 87-year-old patient with the history of resection of a large MCC of the parietal scalp planned for radiotherapy and staged with FDG PET/CT showing disseminated distant metastases. Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT revealed more extensive tumor load compared with FDG, and due to the intensive expression of somatostatin receptors the patient qualified for Y DOTATOC therapy. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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