A 56-year-old female patient who had involuntary weight loss underwent F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) for detection of malignancy. The scan revealed non-metabolic soft tissue density in the posterior wall of the stomach requiring endoscopy. Endoscopical examination was performed 9 days after PET/CT and cascade stomach was detected.
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October 2022
A 56 years old woman with a diagnosis of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma had dyspnea, weakness in the left upper extremity and vocal cord paralysis after chemotherapy. She underwent cervical, thoracal and lumbosacral magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) however findings on MRI could not entirely explain the symptoms of the patient. Therefore, the patient underwent F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography and the scan revealed focal symmetrical F-FDG uptake on the cervical, thoracal and lumbal spinal nerve roots.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe investigated whether the time between synthesis and injection and the resulting decrease in specific activity affects the normal-organ and tumor uptake of the PSMA ligand F-rhPSMA-7.3 in patients with prostate cancer. The biodistribution of F-rhPSMA-7.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe present a 78-year-old man with suspicion of prostate cancer due to a PSA of 200 ng/mL, who underwent F-PSMA-1007 (prostate specific membrane antigen) PET/CT for primary staging. Besides heterogeneous uptake to the prostate, an increased PSMA uptake in the cecum was observed, located in the thickened cecal wall with suspicion of a secondary malignancy. Colonoscopic biopsy followed by hemicolectomy confirmed the diagnosis of colon adenocarcinoma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 50-year-old man with recently diagnosed prostate adenocarcinoma was referred for whole-body Ga-prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET/CT scan for staging. Apart from some nonspecific findings, Ga-PSMA PET/CT revealed large soft tissue mass in the left upper abdomen showing heterogeneous tracer uptake. Histological examination of the mass was interpreted as gastrointestinal/extragastrointestinal stromal tumor by pathologists.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough Tc red blood cell (RBC) scintigraphy is a very specific method to differentiate a hemangioma from other hepatic masses, several cases of false-positive Tc RBC scintigraphy have been previously reported throughout the literature. We report an additional case that presented in a 15-month-old boy with hepatoblastoma showing increased labeled RBC activity mimicking hemangioma.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report the case of a 49-year-old woman with achalasia in whom thyroid stimulating hormone supression was incidentally detected on routine blood tests and who therefore underwent thyroid scintigraphy. Thyroid scan demonstrated low intensity diffuse technetium Tc sodium pertechnetate accumulation inferior to thyroid gland. After correlating the images with her previous barium esophagogram, tracer accumulation caudal to thyroid gland was explained on the presumption of Tc sodium pertechnetate retention within the dilated esophagus.
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