detection of chordoma recurrence by f-18 fdg-pet/ct

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a. sabet department of nuclear medicine, university hospital bonn, germany

h. ahmadzadehfar department of nuclear medicine, university hospital bonn, germany

f.j. huertos lopez department of nuclear medicine, university hospital bonn, germany

m. muckle department of nuclear medicine, university hospital bonn, germany

abstract

background: despite the relative success of surgical resection followed by proton, proton/photon, or conventional radiotherapy in terms of recurrence-free survival, chordomas are still associated with a high rate of recurrence. to our knowledge there are only very few reported cases of this rare tumor detected by f-18 fdg-pet. materials and methods: in this case we show the significance of f-18 fdg-pet/ct in detection of recurrent chordoma in a 38 year old man with a history of the disease and a newly detected cervical lymphatic mass. results: the fused pet/ct images manifested the presence of two abnormal foci of tracer uptake corresponding to a retroclavicular and an infrajugular lymph node proved to be metastases of the previous chordoma in histopathology. conclusion: further employment of f-18 fdg-pet/ct in this rare tumour type might eventually define and establish its value in staging of chordoma. iran. j. radiat. res., 2012 10(2): 109‐110

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iranian journal of radiation research

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