Hypermetabolic New Foci Detected by F-FDG PET/CT in the Heart of a Patient with Cervical Carcinoma
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Received 4/16/2010; revised 6/1/2010; accepted 6/1/2010. For correspondence and reprints contact: Nan-Tsing Chiu, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Medical College, National Cheng Kung University. 138 ShengLi Road, Tainan 704, Taiwan. Tel: (886)6-2353535 ext. 2474, Fax: (886)62766609, E-mail: [email protected] The presence of cardiac metastasis from cervical carcinoma is extremely rare. The diagnosis is made almost exclusively postmortem. Only with a high index of suspicion it is possible to make a diagnosis antemortem. Here we presented a case of uterine cervical carcinoma after surgery and chemotherapy who presented with rising serum SCC and was arranged for F-FDGPET/CT scan. The F-FDG-PET/CT scan showed an unexpected metastasis in the right ventricle of the heart. The following CT and MRI also showed a mass in the right ventricle.
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