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Case report: PET/CT, a cautionary tale
BACKGROUND: The use of combined positron emission tomography/computerised tomography (PET/CT) scanners in oncology has been shown to improve the staging of tumours and the detection of relapses. However, mis-registration errors are increasingly recognised to be a common pitfall of PET/CT studies. CA...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1950887/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17683560 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-7-147 |
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author | Wang, Jayson Cook, Gary Frank, John Dina, Roberto Livni, Naomi Lynn, John Fleming, William Seckl, Michael J |
author_facet | Wang, Jayson Cook, Gary Frank, John Dina, Roberto Livni, Naomi Lynn, John Fleming, William Seckl, Michael J |
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description | BACKGROUND: The use of combined positron emission tomography/computerised tomography (PET/CT) scanners in oncology has been shown to improve the staging of tumours and the detection of relapses. However, mis-registration errors are increasingly recognised to be a common pitfall of PET/CT studies. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a patient with a germ cell tumour of the testis, who underwent a PET/CT scan to detect the site of relapse with a view to surgical removal. However, the PET/CT scan mislocalised the tumour site to be within the T2 vertebral body. A subsequent endoscopic ultrasound scan however showed the tumour to be anterior to the vertebral body, which was confirmed at surgery. CONCLUSION: In this report, we highlight the artefactual mislocalisation errors which may occur with PET/CT imaging, and the need to review and verify these scans. |
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spelling | pubmed-19508872007-08-24 Case report: PET/CT, a cautionary tale Wang, Jayson Cook, Gary Frank, John Dina, Roberto Livni, Naomi Lynn, John Fleming, William Seckl, Michael J BMC Cancer Case Report BACKGROUND: The use of combined positron emission tomography/computerised tomography (PET/CT) scanners in oncology has been shown to improve the staging of tumours and the detection of relapses. However, mis-registration errors are increasingly recognised to be a common pitfall of PET/CT studies. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a patient with a germ cell tumour of the testis, who underwent a PET/CT scan to detect the site of relapse with a view to surgical removal. However, the PET/CT scan mislocalised the tumour site to be within the T2 vertebral body. A subsequent endoscopic ultrasound scan however showed the tumour to be anterior to the vertebral body, which was confirmed at surgery. CONCLUSION: In this report, we highlight the artefactual mislocalisation errors which may occur with PET/CT imaging, and the need to review and verify these scans. BioMed Central 2007-08-03 /pmc/articles/PMC1950887/ /pubmed/17683560 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-7-147 Text en Copyright © 2007 Wang et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Wang, Jayson Cook, Gary Frank, John Dina, Roberto Livni, Naomi Lynn, John Fleming, William Seckl, Michael J Case report: PET/CT, a cautionary tale |
title | Case report: PET/CT, a cautionary tale |
title_full | Case report: PET/CT, a cautionary tale |
title_fullStr | Case report: PET/CT, a cautionary tale |
title_full_unstemmed | Case report: PET/CT, a cautionary tale |
title_short | Case report: PET/CT, a cautionary tale |
title_sort | case report: pet/ct, a cautionary tale |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1950887/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17683560 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2407-7-147 |
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