TY - JOUR
T1 - Small bowel metastasis from lung cancer detected on FDG PET/CT
AU - Tulchinsky, Mark
AU - Coquia, Stephanie
AU - Wagner, Henry
PY - 2009/7
Y1 - 2009/7
N2 - Lung cancer rarely metastasizes to the small bowel, but it can cause severe complications when it does. These include incapacitating abdominal pain, intestinal obstruction, bleeding, and bowel rupture. This case illustrates how a small bowel metastasis can be identified by F-18 fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography. The key to the diagnosis is in precise fusion of abnormal activity on F-18 fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography with bowel wall thickening on the corresponding computed tomography. Differential diagnoses include inflammatory lesions (such as diverticulitis), a second primary, and prominent physiological uptake.
AB - Lung cancer rarely metastasizes to the small bowel, but it can cause severe complications when it does. These include incapacitating abdominal pain, intestinal obstruction, bleeding, and bowel rupture. This case illustrates how a small bowel metastasis can be identified by F-18 fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography. The key to the diagnosis is in precise fusion of abnormal activity on F-18 fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography with bowel wall thickening on the corresponding computed tomography. Differential diagnoses include inflammatory lesions (such as diverticulitis), a second primary, and prominent physiological uptake.
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U2 - 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3181a7d1fb
DO - 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3181a7d1fb
M3 - Article
C2 - 19542953
AN - SCOPUS:67650630200
SN - 0363-9762
VL - 34
SP - 446
EP - 448
JO - Clinical Nuclear Medicine
JF - Clinical Nuclear Medicine
IS - 7
ER -
