Peritoneal recurrence of colon cancer detected by positron emission tomography: Report of a case
| Autor: | Akira Shohtsu, Hiroyasu Makuuchi, Tomihiko Kimura, Masaya Mukai, Tomoo Tajima, Hideki Ishida, Seiei Yasuda, Sotaro Sadahiro, Nobuhiro Tokunaga |
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| Rok vydání: | 1999 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Colorectal cancer Sensitivity and Specificity Metastasis Diagnosis Differential Lesion Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 Surgical oncology medicine Humans Recurrent Colorectal Cancer Peritoneal Neoplasms Aged Fluorodeoxyglucose medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Liver Neoplasms General Medicine medicine.disease Positron emission tomography Male patient Colonic Neoplasms Surgery Radiology medicine.symptom business Tomography Emission-Computed medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Surgery Today. 29:633-636 |
| ISSN: | 1436-2813 0941-1291 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/bf02482990 |
| Popis: | Increased glucose metabolism has been reported to occur in association with colorectal cancer. As positron emission tomography (PET) using [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose is able to depict hypermetabolic sites, it can therefore be used to detect colorectal cancer. A 69-year-old male patient with a recurrent solitary liver metastasis from colon cancer underwent whole-body PET which revealed high [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in the lesion. Furthermore, PET revealed peritoneal metastases that had not been detected by conventional imaging methods. Consequently, PET proved useful in helping us to avoid performing unnecessary treatment for the liver metastasis. Although it is uncertain whether early identification of recurrence can prolong survival, it may help to prevent unnecessary treatments being carried out. Thus, the application of PET in carefully selected patients could be beneficial to the management of recurrent colorectal cancer. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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