Erschienen in:
01.08.2017 | Images that Teach
Cardiac metastasis from lung cancer mimicking as perfusion defect on N-13 ammonia and FDG myocardial viability PET/CT scan
verfasst von:
Dharmender Malik, DNB, Rajender Basher, MD, Shelvin Vadi, MBBS, Bhagwant Mittal, MD, DNB, Anish Bhattacharya, DNB, PhD
Erschienen in:
Journal of Nuclear Cardiology
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Ausgabe 4/2017
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Excerpt
Primary cardiac tumors are very rare (0.01-0.1% on autopsy), metastatic cardiac tumors range between 0.7-3.5% in general population and up to 9.1% in patients with known malignancies.
1 Primary lung cancer is the most common cause (36-39%) of cardiac metastases, followed by breast cancer (10-12%) and hematologic malignancies (10-21%).
2 We report a case of myocardial metastasis from lung cancer, which initially presented as a perfusion defect on rest N-13 ammonia perfusion and FDG metabolic myocardial (myocardial viability) PET-CT scan. …