Nerve Root Metastasis of Breast Carcinoma Detected by Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Scan

A 35-year-old woman with history of breast cancer was referred to our department for restaging by F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scan. Aside from multiple other FDG-avid metastatic lesions, a segmental increased FDG uptake was visualized along...

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Autores principales: Norouzi, Ghazal, Adinehpour, Zohreh, Rezaei, Alireza, Vali, Reza
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10348498/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37456179
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_184_22
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author Norouzi, Ghazal
Adinehpour, Zohreh
Rezaei, Alireza
Vali, Reza
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description A 35-year-old woman with history of breast cancer was referred to our department for restaging by F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scan. Aside from multiple other FDG-avid metastatic lesions, a segmental increased FDG uptake was visualized along the asymmetrically thicker left first sacral nerve root, highly concerning for metastatic disease, which was confirmed by the subsequently performed magnetic resonance imaging. Our case highlights the capability of FDG PET/CT scan in the correct diagnosis of the extremely rare phenomenon of nerve root metastasis as well as the importance of differentiating FDG-avid lumbosacral nerve roots from adjacent skeletal metastases.
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spelling pubmed-103484982023-07-15 Nerve Root Metastasis of Breast Carcinoma Detected by Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Scan Norouzi, Ghazal Adinehpour, Zohreh Rezaei, Alireza Vali, Reza Indian J Nucl Med Interesting Image A 35-year-old woman with history of breast cancer was referred to our department for restaging by F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) scan. Aside from multiple other FDG-avid metastatic lesions, a segmental increased FDG uptake was visualized along the asymmetrically thicker left first sacral nerve root, highly concerning for metastatic disease, which was confirmed by the subsequently performed magnetic resonance imaging. Our case highlights the capability of FDG PET/CT scan in the correct diagnosis of the extremely rare phenomenon of nerve root metastasis as well as the importance of differentiating FDG-avid lumbosacral nerve roots from adjacent skeletal metastases. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2023 2023-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC10348498/ /pubmed/37456179 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_184_22 Text en Copyright: © 2023 Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Nerve Root Metastasis of Breast Carcinoma Detected by Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Scan
title Nerve Root Metastasis of Breast Carcinoma Detected by Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Scan
title_full Nerve Root Metastasis of Breast Carcinoma Detected by Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Scan
title_fullStr Nerve Root Metastasis of Breast Carcinoma Detected by Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Scan
title_full_unstemmed Nerve Root Metastasis of Breast Carcinoma Detected by Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Scan
title_short Nerve Root Metastasis of Breast Carcinoma Detected by Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography Scan
title_sort nerve root metastasis of breast carcinoma detected by fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography scan
topic Interesting Image
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10348498/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37456179
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.ijnm_184_22
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