Incidental PET/CT Detection of Breast Cancer in a Patient with Negative Mammogram and Breast Sonogram

We present the case of a 57-year-old woman with known Hodgkins lymphoma who presented with PET/CT findings of a breast mass and diseased axillary lymph node despite negative results from a recent routine mammogram and ultrasound. Needle biopsy of the mass and lymph node confirmed a diagnosis of infi...

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Autores principales: Lee, Edward W., Grant, Jonathan D., Mari, Carina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4895072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27303476
http://dx.doi.org/10.2484/rcr.v2i3.84
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description We present the case of a 57-year-old woman with known Hodgkins lymphoma who presented with PET/CT findings of a breast mass and diseased axillary lymph node despite negative results from a recent routine mammogram and ultrasound. Needle biopsy of the mass and lymph node confirmed a diagnosis of infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the breast with nodal metastases.
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spelling pubmed-48950722016-06-14 Incidental PET/CT Detection of Breast Cancer in a Patient with Negative Mammogram and Breast Sonogram Lee, Edward W. Grant, Jonathan D. Mari, Carina Radiol Case Rep Article We present the case of a 57-year-old woman with known Hodgkins lymphoma who presented with PET/CT findings of a breast mass and diseased axillary lymph node despite negative results from a recent routine mammogram and ultrasound. Needle biopsy of the mass and lymph node confirmed a diagnosis of infiltrating ductal carcinoma of the breast with nodal metastases. Elsevier 2015-12-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4895072/ /pubmed/27303476 http://dx.doi.org/10.2484/rcr.v2i3.84 Text en © 2007 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_full Incidental PET/CT Detection of Breast Cancer in a Patient with Negative Mammogram and Breast Sonogram
title_fullStr Incidental PET/CT Detection of Breast Cancer in a Patient with Negative Mammogram and Breast Sonogram
title_full_unstemmed Incidental PET/CT Detection of Breast Cancer in a Patient with Negative Mammogram and Breast Sonogram
title_short Incidental PET/CT Detection of Breast Cancer in a Patient with Negative Mammogram and Breast Sonogram
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4895072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27303476
http://dx.doi.org/10.2484/rcr.v2i3.84
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