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Cardiac Metastasis from Prostate Cancer: A Case Study Underlying the Crucial Role of the PSMA PET/CT
Prostate cancer still represents one of the most frequent cancers and causes of death worldwide, despite the huge therapeutic advances in the last decades. The introduction into clinical practice of prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PSMA PET/CT) has...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10487121/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37685271 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13172733 |
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author | Gandini, Annalice Bauckneht, Matteo Sofia, Luca Tomasello, Laura Fornarini, Giuseppe Zanardi, Elisa |
author_facet | Gandini, Annalice Bauckneht, Matteo Sofia, Luca Tomasello, Laura Fornarini, Giuseppe Zanardi, Elisa |
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description | Prostate cancer still represents one of the most frequent cancers and causes of death worldwide, despite the huge therapeutic advances in the last decades. The introduction into clinical practice of prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PSMA PET/CT) has significantly improved diagnostic capacity, allowing for the identification of lesions previously undetectable. The case we are presenting is about a 90-year-old man affected by metastatic prostate cancer and treated with hormonal therapies. At the second progression, the restaging with PSMA PET/CT pointed out a millimetric cardiac intra-atrial metastasis, on which little/scarce literature data are still available. On one hand, this finding confirms the high sensitivity of this technique, which should be preferred over traditional imaging. On the other hand, it suggests that introducing next-generation imaging into clinical practice may provide novel insights about prostate cancer metastatic spread. |
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spelling | pubmed-104871212023-09-09 Cardiac Metastasis from Prostate Cancer: A Case Study Underlying the Crucial Role of the PSMA PET/CT Gandini, Annalice Bauckneht, Matteo Sofia, Luca Tomasello, Laura Fornarini, Giuseppe Zanardi, Elisa Diagnostics (Basel) Interesting Images Prostate cancer still represents one of the most frequent cancers and causes of death worldwide, despite the huge therapeutic advances in the last decades. The introduction into clinical practice of prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PSMA PET/CT) has significantly improved diagnostic capacity, allowing for the identification of lesions previously undetectable. The case we are presenting is about a 90-year-old man affected by metastatic prostate cancer and treated with hormonal therapies. At the second progression, the restaging with PSMA PET/CT pointed out a millimetric cardiac intra-atrial metastasis, on which little/scarce literature data are still available. On one hand, this finding confirms the high sensitivity of this technique, which should be preferred over traditional imaging. On the other hand, it suggests that introducing next-generation imaging into clinical practice may provide novel insights about prostate cancer metastatic spread. MDPI 2023-08-23 /pmc/articles/PMC10487121/ /pubmed/37685271 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13172733 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Interesting Images Gandini, Annalice Bauckneht, Matteo Sofia, Luca Tomasello, Laura Fornarini, Giuseppe Zanardi, Elisa Cardiac Metastasis from Prostate Cancer: A Case Study Underlying the Crucial Role of the PSMA PET/CT |
title | Cardiac Metastasis from Prostate Cancer: A Case Study Underlying the Crucial Role of the PSMA PET/CT |
title_full | Cardiac Metastasis from Prostate Cancer: A Case Study Underlying the Crucial Role of the PSMA PET/CT |
title_fullStr | Cardiac Metastasis from Prostate Cancer: A Case Study Underlying the Crucial Role of the PSMA PET/CT |
title_full_unstemmed | Cardiac Metastasis from Prostate Cancer: A Case Study Underlying the Crucial Role of the PSMA PET/CT |
title_short | Cardiac Metastasis from Prostate Cancer: A Case Study Underlying the Crucial Role of the PSMA PET/CT |
title_sort | cardiac metastasis from prostate cancer: a case study underlying the crucial role of the psma pet/ct |
topic | Interesting Images |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10487121/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37685271 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics13172733 |
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