Uncommon Metastases From Occult Breast Cancer Revealed by 18 F-FDG and 68 Ga-FAPI PET/CT.

Clin Nucl Med

From the Department of Nuclear Medicine and Minnan PET Center, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xiamen University, School of Medicine, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China.

Published: August 2022

Metastases to gastrointestinal tract from breast cancer are very rare and can be diagnostically challenging. In this case, we reported 18 F-FDG and 68 Ga-FAPI PET/CT findings in a 54-year-old women with such uncommon metastases from breast cancer. Although the primary tumor of breast cancer remained radiologically occult, 68 Ga-FAPI PET/CT showed a far better tumor-to-background ratio than 18 F-FDG PET/CT for detecting the metastatic lesions, especially for detecting the retroperitoneal lymph node and rectal metastases.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/RLU.0000000000004193DOI Listing

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