Positron Emission Tomography Scan Reveals an Unusual Source for Cervical Lymphadenopathy: Right Colon Cancer

Cervical lymphadenopathy is usually related to the presence of an inflammatory disease or to a malignant localization. In the event of metastatic findings, the thyroid gland is the most likely primary site of a tumor. Metastatic lymphadenopathy represents a challenge when the primary tumor is unknow...

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Autores principales: Palmisano, Silvia, Casagranda, Biagio, Piccinni, Giuseppe, de Manzini, Nicolò
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3099064/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21372356
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1319-3767.77249
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author Palmisano, Silvia
Casagranda, Biagio
Piccinni, Giuseppe
de Manzini, Nicolò
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description Cervical lymphadenopathy is usually related to the presence of an inflammatory disease or to a malignant localization. In the event of metastatic findings, the thyroid gland is the most likely primary site of a tumor. Metastatic lymphadenopathy represents a challenge when the primary tumor is unknown. A 64-year-old female with a supraclavicular palpable mass in the absence of underlying thyroid disease underwent ultrasonography of the neck, biopsy of the pathological lymph node, fluorodeoxyglucose-Positron Emission Tomography (FDG-PET) and colonoscopy until right colon cancer was diagnosed. FDG-PET is a fast and reliable tool to discover the primary site of cervical masses of unknown origin.
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spelling pubmed-30990642011-05-23 Positron Emission Tomography Scan Reveals an Unusual Source for Cervical Lymphadenopathy: Right Colon Cancer Palmisano, Silvia Casagranda, Biagio Piccinni, Giuseppe de Manzini, Nicolò Saudi J Gastroenterol Case Report Cervical lymphadenopathy is usually related to the presence of an inflammatory disease or to a malignant localization. In the event of metastatic findings, the thyroid gland is the most likely primary site of a tumor. Metastatic lymphadenopathy represents a challenge when the primary tumor is unknown. A 64-year-old female with a supraclavicular palpable mass in the absence of underlying thyroid disease underwent ultrasonography of the neck, biopsy of the pathological lymph node, fluorodeoxyglucose-Positron Emission Tomography (FDG-PET) and colonoscopy until right colon cancer was diagnosed. FDG-PET is a fast and reliable tool to discover the primary site of cervical masses of unknown origin. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3099064/ /pubmed/21372356 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1319-3767.77249 Text en © Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Palmisano, Silvia
Casagranda, Biagio
Piccinni, Giuseppe
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Positron Emission Tomography Scan Reveals an Unusual Source for Cervical Lymphadenopathy: Right Colon Cancer
title Positron Emission Tomography Scan Reveals an Unusual Source for Cervical Lymphadenopathy: Right Colon Cancer
title_full Positron Emission Tomography Scan Reveals an Unusual Source for Cervical Lymphadenopathy: Right Colon Cancer
title_fullStr Positron Emission Tomography Scan Reveals an Unusual Source for Cervical Lymphadenopathy: Right Colon Cancer
title_full_unstemmed Positron Emission Tomography Scan Reveals an Unusual Source for Cervical Lymphadenopathy: Right Colon Cancer
title_short Positron Emission Tomography Scan Reveals an Unusual Source for Cervical Lymphadenopathy: Right Colon Cancer
title_sort positron emission tomography scan reveals an unusual source for cervical lymphadenopathy: right colon cancer
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3099064/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21372356
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1319-3767.77249
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