Asymptomatic cauda equina metastasis in a patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Detection by (18)F-FDG PET/CT

The central nervous system metastasis from nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is an extremely rare occurrence, although direct intracranial invasion is not infrequent in patients with NPC. Herein we report a case of a 62-year-old male with NPC, in whom the asymptomatic cauda equina metastasis was detect...

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Autores principales: Karunanithi, Sellam, Jain, Sachin, Sharma, Punit, Bal, Chandrasekhar, Kumar, Rakesh
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4157196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25210288
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.136581
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author Karunanithi, Sellam
Jain, Sachin
Sharma, Punit
Bal, Chandrasekhar
Kumar, Rakesh
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description The central nervous system metastasis from nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is an extremely rare occurrence, although direct intracranial invasion is not infrequent in patients with NPC. Herein we report a case of a 62-year-old male with NPC, in whom the asymptomatic cauda equina metastasis was detected on staging (18)F-Fluordeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography (F-FDG PET/CT). By demonstrating distant metastasis to cauda equina, (18)F-FDG PET/CT detection helped in change of management in this patient.
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spelling pubmed-41571962014-09-10 Asymptomatic cauda equina metastasis in a patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Detection by (18)F-FDG PET/CT Karunanithi, Sellam Jain, Sachin Sharma, Punit Bal, Chandrasekhar Kumar, Rakesh Indian J Nucl Med Case Report The central nervous system metastasis from nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is an extremely rare occurrence, although direct intracranial invasion is not infrequent in patients with NPC. Herein we report a case of a 62-year-old male with NPC, in whom the asymptomatic cauda equina metastasis was detected on staging (18)F-Fluordeoxyglucose positron emission tomography-computed tomography (F-FDG PET/CT). By demonstrating distant metastasis to cauda equina, (18)F-FDG PET/CT detection helped in change of management in this patient. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4157196/ /pubmed/25210288 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.136581 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Karunanithi, Sellam
Jain, Sachin
Sharma, Punit
Bal, Chandrasekhar
Kumar, Rakesh
Asymptomatic cauda equina metastasis in a patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Detection by (18)F-FDG PET/CT
title Asymptomatic cauda equina metastasis in a patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Detection by (18)F-FDG PET/CT
title_full Asymptomatic cauda equina metastasis in a patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Detection by (18)F-FDG PET/CT
title_fullStr Asymptomatic cauda equina metastasis in a patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Detection by (18)F-FDG PET/CT
title_full_unstemmed Asymptomatic cauda equina metastasis in a patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Detection by (18)F-FDG PET/CT
title_short Asymptomatic cauda equina metastasis in a patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma: Detection by (18)F-FDG PET/CT
title_sort asymptomatic cauda equina metastasis in a patient with nasopharyngeal carcinoma: detection by (18)f-fdg pet/ct
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4157196/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25210288
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.136581
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