Erschienen in:
13.04.2021 | Images that Teach
18F-FDG PET/CT focal cardiac uptake: An unsuspected Chiari’s network
verfasst von:
Ana Moreno-Ballesteros, Jose Antonio Lojo-Ramírez, Jose Manuel Jiménez-Hoyuela-García
Erschienen in:
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
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Ausgabe 6/2022
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Excerpt
We report a 71-year-old female patient in chemotherapy treatment for cervix carcinoma (FIGO stage IV) infiltrating the bladder and the left parametrium. PET imaging with 383 MBq of 18F-FDG revealed a hypermetabolic pelvic mass and metastatic disease with pathological lesions at the level of the liver, lung and bone parenchyma; being all suggestive of malignancy. Also, a focal uptake with nodular morphology in the right atria was found (arrow), making imperative to discard a metastatic etiology versus primary tumor (myxoma/sarcoma) and other etiologies. …