Findings on Fluorine-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in a Patient with Malignant Pheochromocytoma

Pheochromocytomas are rare tumors arising from chromaffin cells of the sympathoadrenal system and 85% of them are located in the adrenal medulla. Malignant pheochromocytomas account for 10% of all pheochromocytomas. Since clinical, biochemical and histopathological features can not reliably distingu...

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Autores principales: Ozcan Kara, Pelin, Kara, Taylan, Kara Gedik, Gonca, Sari, Oktay, Sahin, Ozlem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Galenos Publishing 2011
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Clinical Evaluation
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3590941/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23487352
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/MIRT.018253
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Sahin, Ozlem
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description Pheochromocytomas are rare tumors arising from chromaffin cells of the sympathoadrenal system and 85% of them are located in the adrenal medulla. Malignant pheochromocytomas account for 10% of all pheochromocytomas. Since clinical, biochemical and histopathological features can not reliably distinguish malignant from benign tumors, malignancy is established in the presence of distant metastases. Although in some cases, metastases may develop during follow-up, most of these tumors have metastatic disease at initial presentation. In this case report, detection of distant metastases and recurrence developed during follow-up with 18-flouro-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG PET/CT) in a patient with malignant pheochromocytoma was presented. Conflict of interest:None declared.
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spelling pubmed-35909412013-03-13 Findings on Fluorine-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in a Patient with Malignant Pheochromocytoma Ozcan Kara, Pelin Kara, Taylan Kara Gedik, Gonca Sari, Oktay Sahin, Ozlem Mol Imaging Radionucl Ther Clinical Evaluation Pheochromocytomas are rare tumors arising from chromaffin cells of the sympathoadrenal system and 85% of them are located in the adrenal medulla. Malignant pheochromocytomas account for 10% of all pheochromocytomas. Since clinical, biochemical and histopathological features can not reliably distinguish malignant from benign tumors, malignancy is established in the presence of distant metastases. Although in some cases, metastases may develop during follow-up, most of these tumors have metastatic disease at initial presentation. In this case report, detection of distant metastases and recurrence developed during follow-up with 18-flouro-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG PET/CT) in a patient with malignant pheochromocytoma was presented. Conflict of interest:None declared. Galenos Publishing 2011-08 2011-08-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3590941/ /pubmed/23487352 http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/MIRT.018253 Text en © Molecular Imaging and Radionuclide Therapy, Published by Galenos Publishing. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ 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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Findings on Fluorine-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in a Patient with Malignant Pheochromocytoma
title Findings on Fluorine-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in a Patient with Malignant Pheochromocytoma
title_full Findings on Fluorine-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in a Patient with Malignant Pheochromocytoma
title_fullStr Findings on Fluorine-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in a Patient with Malignant Pheochromocytoma
title_full_unstemmed Findings on Fluorine-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in a Patient with Malignant Pheochromocytoma
title_short Findings on Fluorine-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography in a Patient with Malignant Pheochromocytoma
title_sort findings on fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography in a patient with malignant pheochromocytoma
topic Clinical Evaluation
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3590941/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23487352
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/MIRT.018253
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