Diffuse Splenic Metastases from Seminoma Visualized on FDG PET
| Autor: | Girolamo Moschilla, Andrew Patrikeos, Nat Lenzo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Response to therapy Sensitivity and Specificity Metastasis Testicular Neoplasms Fluorodeoxyglucose F18 Humans Medicine Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Stage (cooking) Neoplasm Staging medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Splenic Neoplasms General Medicine Seminoma medicine.disease Supraclavicular lymph nodes medicine.anatomical_structure Positron emission tomography Metastatic seminoma Radiology Lymph Radiopharmaceuticals business Nuclear medicine Tomography Emission-Computed |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Roentgenology. 183:525-527 |
| ISSN: | 1546-3141 0361-803X |
| DOI: | 10.2214/ajr.183.2.1830525 |
| Popis: | 525 plenic metastasis from testicular tumors, although reported [1], is relatively uncommon. This form of disease is only occasionally visualized on CT [2, 3]. Currently, the major staging and restaging imaging technique in testicular tumors is CT. PET using FDG appears to be of potential use in the restaging of seminomatous testicular tumors and in the assessment of residual masses in this disease [4, 5]. FDG PET also appears to depict early metabolic response to therapy that may have prognostic implications [6]. We present a case that shows the utility of FDG PET in the accurate restaging of seminomatous disease. Case Report A 28-year-old man presented with malaise, weight loss, and a lump in the left neck typical for an enlarged supraclavicular lymph node. He had been treated 4 years earlier for a stage III metastatic seminoma. He had been left with residual paraaortic lymph Diffuse Splenic Metastases from Seminoma Visualized on FDG PET |
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