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The hot embolus of (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose

Scanning oncological patients with (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose ((18)F-FDG) for their disease staging, evaluation of treatment response, and monitoring/management has become a standard of care. The use of the radioactive fluorine in the FDG molecule helps establish cell/tissue lines high on glucose cons...

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Autores principales: Hussain, Riffat Parveen, Mahmood, Tariq
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7875025/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33623519
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_7_20
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description Scanning oncological patients with (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose ((18)F-FDG) for their disease staging, evaluation of treatment response, and monitoring/management has become a standard of care. The use of the radioactive fluorine in the FDG molecule helps establish cell/tissue lines high on glucose consumption and hence metabolically active. Abnormalities are detected on the scan as areas of increased uptake. However, these areas of increased (hot) uptakes do not necessarily translate into a pathological finding. A comprehensive knowledge of the uptakes of the tracer and the potential “pitfalls” that may be associated with them should be known and kept in mind during scan reading. One such pitfall is the “hot clot” or “pulmonary emboli,” and we report two such cases encountered at our setup and discuss their causes and how they should be identified and avoided.
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spelling pubmed-78750252021-02-22 The hot embolus of (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose Hussain, Riffat Parveen Mahmood, Tariq World J Nucl Med Case Report Scanning oncological patients with (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose ((18)F-FDG) for their disease staging, evaluation of treatment response, and monitoring/management has become a standard of care. The use of the radioactive fluorine in the FDG molecule helps establish cell/tissue lines high on glucose consumption and hence metabolically active. Abnormalities are detected on the scan as areas of increased uptake. However, these areas of increased (hot) uptakes do not necessarily translate into a pathological finding. A comprehensive knowledge of the uptakes of the tracer and the potential “pitfalls” that may be associated with them should be known and kept in mind during scan reading. One such pitfall is the “hot clot” or “pulmonary emboli,” and we report two such cases encountered at our setup and discuss their causes and how they should be identified and avoided. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-07-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7875025/ /pubmed/33623519 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/wjnm.WJNM_7_20 Text en Copyright: © 2020 World Journal of Nuclear Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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