Metastasis of the gastrointestinal tract: FDG-PET imaging
| Autor: | Toshihiro Matsuura, Kengo Ito, Takashi Nihashi, Keita Sakata, Yasuji Kawabata, Kazumitsu Nakashima, Kazumasa Hayasaka, Takashi Katoh, Atsushi Harada, Tetsuya Yagi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Pathology Lung Neoplasms Metastasis Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 medicine Carcinoma Humans Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Femur Aged Gastrointestinal Neoplasms Gastrointestinal tract Lung medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Stomach Gastric metastasis General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure Positron emission tomography Positron-Emission Tomography Female Radiology Radiopharmaceuticals business |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Nuclear Medicine. 21:361-365 |
| ISSN: | 1864-6433 0914-7187 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s12149-007-0028-9 |
| Popis: | We assess the usefulness of F-18-fluoro-deoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) in the evaluation of gastrointestinal metastases. Four cases (five lesions) in which metastases from three lung cancers and one malignant fibrous histiocytoma (MFH) of the femur were found in the gastrointestinal tract were reviewed (men/women 3 : 1, age 63-78 years, mean 72 years). The five lesions were duodenal, jejunal metastasis, and two stomach metastases from lung carcinoma, and rectal metastasis from MFH of the femur. FDG-PET was unable to detect small masses, but it was able to detect unforeseen lesions such as gastrointestinal metastases because FDG-PET is a whole-body scan in a single-operation examination. FDG-PET imaging provided valuable information for the diagnosis of gastrointestinal metastasis. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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