Extrapulmonary small cell sarcinoma: involvement of the brain without evidence of extracranial malignancy by serial PET/CT scans

BACKGROUND: Extrapulmonary small cell carcinoma (EPSCC) involving the brain is a rare manifestation of an uncommon tumor type. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a 59 year-old Caucasian female diagnosed with an EPSCC involving the left parietal lobe without detectable extracranial primary tumor followed b...

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Autores principales: Hueser, Christopher N, Nguyen, Nghi C, Osman, Medhat, Havlioglu, Necat, Patel, Anjali J
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2564932/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18817561
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-102
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author Hueser, Christopher N
Nguyen, Nghi C
Osman, Medhat
Havlioglu, Necat
Patel, Anjali J
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Nguyen, Nghi C
Osman, Medhat
Havlioglu, Necat
Patel, Anjali J
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description BACKGROUND: Extrapulmonary small cell carcinoma (EPSCC) involving the brain is a rare manifestation of an uncommon tumor type. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a 59 year-old Caucasian female diagnosed with an EPSCC involving the left parietal lobe without detectable extracranial primary tumor followed by serial positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging. Histopathological examination at both initial presentation and recurrence revealed small cell carcinoma. Serial PET/CT scans of the entire body failed to reveal any extracranial [(18)F]2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) avid lesions at either diagnosis or follow-up. CONCLUSION: Chemotherapy may show a transient response in the treatment of EPSCC. Further studies are needed to help identify optimal treatment strategies. Combination PET/CT technology may be a useful tool to monitor EPSCC and assess for an occult primary malignancy.
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spelling pubmed-25649322008-10-09 Extrapulmonary small cell sarcinoma: involvement of the brain without evidence of extracranial malignancy by serial PET/CT scans Hueser, Christopher N Nguyen, Nghi C Osman, Medhat Havlioglu, Necat Patel, Anjali J World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Extrapulmonary small cell carcinoma (EPSCC) involving the brain is a rare manifestation of an uncommon tumor type. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a 59 year-old Caucasian female diagnosed with an EPSCC involving the left parietal lobe without detectable extracranial primary tumor followed by serial positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging. Histopathological examination at both initial presentation and recurrence revealed small cell carcinoma. Serial PET/CT scans of the entire body failed to reveal any extracranial [(18)F]2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) avid lesions at either diagnosis or follow-up. CONCLUSION: Chemotherapy may show a transient response in the treatment of EPSCC. Further studies are needed to help identify optimal treatment strategies. Combination PET/CT technology may be a useful tool to monitor EPSCC and assess for an occult primary malignancy. BioMed Central 2008-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC2564932/ /pubmed/18817561 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-102 Text en Copyright © 2008 Hueser 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
Hueser, Christopher N
Nguyen, Nghi C
Osman, Medhat
Havlioglu, Necat
Patel, Anjali J
Extrapulmonary small cell sarcinoma: involvement of the brain without evidence of extracranial malignancy by serial PET/CT scans
title Extrapulmonary small cell sarcinoma: involvement of the brain without evidence of extracranial malignancy by serial PET/CT scans
title_full Extrapulmonary small cell sarcinoma: involvement of the brain without evidence of extracranial malignancy by serial PET/CT scans
title_fullStr Extrapulmonary small cell sarcinoma: involvement of the brain without evidence of extracranial malignancy by serial PET/CT scans
title_full_unstemmed Extrapulmonary small cell sarcinoma: involvement of the brain without evidence of extracranial malignancy by serial PET/CT scans
title_short Extrapulmonary small cell sarcinoma: involvement of the brain without evidence of extracranial malignancy by serial PET/CT scans
title_sort extrapulmonary small cell sarcinoma: involvement of the brain without evidence of extracranial malignancy by serial pet/ct scans
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2564932/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18817561
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-102
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