(18)F-FDG-PET/CT imaging in cardiac tumors: illustrative clinical cases and review of the literature

Cardiac tumors are a very rare condition. Mostly, they are benign tumors (75%), with myxomas being the most frequent. The remaining 25% are malignant; either primary malignant sarcoma or secondary metastases. Given the small number of cases reported and the lack of prospective and randomized clinica...

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Autores principales: Saponara, Maristella, Ambrosini, Valentina, Nannini, Margherita, Gatto, Lidia, Astolfi, Annalisa, Urbini, Milena, Indio, Valentina, Fanti, Stefano, Pantaleo, Maria Abbondanza
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2018
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Case Series
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6188102/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30344650
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1758835918793569
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author Saponara, Maristella
Ambrosini, Valentina
Nannini, Margherita
Gatto, Lidia
Astolfi, Annalisa
Urbini, Milena
Indio, Valentina
Fanti, Stefano
Pantaleo, Maria Abbondanza
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Ambrosini, Valentina
Nannini, Margherita
Gatto, Lidia
Astolfi, Annalisa
Urbini, Milena
Indio, Valentina
Fanti, Stefano
Pantaleo, Maria Abbondanza
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description Cardiac tumors are a very rare condition. Mostly, they are benign tumors (75%), with myxomas being the most frequent. The remaining 25% are malignant; either primary malignant sarcoma or secondary metastases. Given the small number of cases reported and the lack of prospective and randomized clinical trials, the level of evidence for the optimal multimodal treatment of primary cardiac sarcomas is very low and the optimal imaging diagnostic workup is not well established. In particular, (18)F-FDG-PET/CT is not yet included in routine diagnosis of cardiac masses. Here, we report four illustrative clinical cases and a review of the literature on the current available data on the role of (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT imaging in cardiac tumors.
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spelling pubmed-61881022018-10-19 (18)F-FDG-PET/CT imaging in cardiac tumors: illustrative clinical cases and review of the literature Saponara, Maristella Ambrosini, Valentina Nannini, Margherita Gatto, Lidia Astolfi, Annalisa Urbini, Milena Indio, Valentina Fanti, Stefano Pantaleo, Maria Abbondanza Ther Adv Med Oncol Case Series Cardiac tumors are a very rare condition. Mostly, they are benign tumors (75%), with myxomas being the most frequent. The remaining 25% are malignant; either primary malignant sarcoma or secondary metastases. Given the small number of cases reported and the lack of prospective and randomized clinical trials, the level of evidence for the optimal multimodal treatment of primary cardiac sarcomas is very low and the optimal imaging diagnostic workup is not well established. In particular, (18)F-FDG-PET/CT is not yet included in routine diagnosis of cardiac masses. Here, we report four illustrative clinical cases and a review of the literature on the current available data on the role of (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT imaging in cardiac tumors. SAGE Publications 2018-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6188102/ /pubmed/30344650 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1758835918793569 Text en © The Author(s), 2018 http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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Ambrosini, Valentina
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Gatto, Lidia
Astolfi, Annalisa
Urbini, Milena
Indio, Valentina
Fanti, Stefano
Pantaleo, Maria Abbondanza
(18)F-FDG-PET/CT imaging in cardiac tumors: illustrative clinical cases and review of the literature
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title_full_unstemmed (18)F-FDG-PET/CT imaging in cardiac tumors: illustrative clinical cases and review of the literature
title_short (18)F-FDG-PET/CT imaging in cardiac tumors: illustrative clinical cases and review of the literature
title_sort (18)f-fdg-pet/ct imaging in cardiac tumors: illustrative clinical cases and review of the literature
topic Case Series
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6188102/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30344650
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1758835918793569
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