Imaging-guided precision medicine in non-resectable gastro-entero-pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors: A step-by-step approach.

The majority of gastroenteropancreatic (GEP) neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are diagnosed at a non-resectable stage due to non-specific clinical syndromes, late manifestations from mass effects, or incidental detection of a clinically silent disease. Management strategies include curative or cytoreduction surgery, imaging-guided intervention, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and radionuclide therapies. In this step-by-step review, we provide a structured approach for standardized reading and reporting of medical imaging studies covering content and terminology.

Imaging-guided precision medicine in glioblastoma patients treated with immune checkpoint modulators: research trend and future directions in the field of imaging biomarkers and artificial intelligence.

Immunotherapies that employ immune checkpoint modulators (ICMs) have emerged as an effective treatment for a variety of solid cancers, as well as a paradigm shift in the treatment of cancers. Despite this breakthrough, the median survival time of glioblastoma patients has remained at about 2 years. Therefore, the safety and anti-cancer efficacy of combination therapies that include ICMs are being actively investigated.

A 22-Year-Old Woman With Fever, Palpitations, and a Cardiac Mass.

A 22-year-old woman was admitted to our department for fever of unknown origin. The patient reported intermittent fever and nonspecific abdominal pain for several years. Six months before admission she started complaining of palpitations and exertional dyspnea.

Diagnostic and Therapeutic Uptake of Intrathyroid Metastasis of Midgut Neuroendocrine Tumor on 68Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT and 177Lu-DOTATATE Imaging.

A 58-year-old woman with 5-year history of grade 1 progressive metastatic intestinal neuroendocrine tumor with metachronous liver metastases initially treated by surgery and liver embolization underwent Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT before Lu-DOTATATE therapy. Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT revealed increased uptake in several liver metastases and right iliac lymph nodes, consistent with radiopeptide therapy, including a hypodense isthmic thyroid nodule. Fine needle ultrasound-guided biopsy of the thyroid nodule was realized.

The role of multimodal imaging in guiding resectability and cytoreduction in pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors: focus on PET and MRI.

Pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors (pNETs) are rare neoplasms that secrete peptides and neuro-amines. pNETs can be sporadic or hereditary, syndromic or non-syndromic with different clinical presentations and prognoses. The role of medical imaging includes locating the tumor, assessing its extent, and evaluating the feasibility of curative surgery or cytoreduction.

FDG atrial uptake is associated with an increased prevalence of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation.

Purpose: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common sustained cardiac arrhythmia and is associated with an increased risk of stroke. Indeed, silent AF is frequently identified in unexplained ischemic stroke. F-FDG-PET/CT is a powerful tool for assessing myocardial metabolic shift and inflammation, both potentially at stake in AF.

Spleno-hepatic index to predict portal hypertension by equilibrium radionuclide ventriculography.

Background: Structural and morphological changes accompanying liver cirrhosis lead to portal hypertension (PHT), which is the first step of most of the complications in patients with liver cirrhosis. Therefore, the development of noninvasive techniques to detect PHT is crucial for prognosis and treatment.

Aim: The aim of our study was to assess the diagnostic performance of a new spleno-hepatic index (SHI) measured from equilibrium radionuclide ventriculography (ERV) images in detecting patients with cirrhotic PHT.

Fluorine-18-fluorocholine PET/CT parameters predictive for hematological toxicity to radium-223 therapy in castrate-resistant prostate cancer patients with bone metastases: a pilot study.

Purpose: This study aims to predict hematological toxicity induced by Ra therapy. We investigated the value of metabolically active bone tumor volume (MBTV) and total bone lesion activity (TLA) calculated on pretreatment fluorine-18-fluorocholine (F-FCH) PET/CT in castrate-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) patients with bone metastases treated with Ra radionuclide therapy.

Patients And Methods: F-FCH PET/CT imaging was performed in 15 patients with CRPC before treatment with Ra.

Could FDG-PET imaging play a role in the detection of progressing atherosclerosis in HIV-infected patients?

Important progresses in the management of patients with human immunodeficiency virus, in particular the advent of new anti-retroviral therapies (ART), have turned this rapidly fatal condition into a controllable chronic disease with a life expectancy that approaches the one from the general population. Cardiovascular diseases have now become one of the leading causes of non-HIV-related mortality in this population. Several factors including the presence of HIV in the vascular wall and the development of dyslipidemia and alteration in body fat distribution under ART might play a role the progression of atherosclerosis in HIV-infected patients.