(18)F-FDG PET/CT Imaging of Metastatic Testicular Choriocarcinoma Mimicking Gastric Cancer which Initial Symptom is Melena

Gastric metastasis of choriocarcinoma is rarely reported in the literature. This case report presents the case of multiple metastatic testicular choriocarcinoma mimicking gastric cancer, with melena as the initial symptom. In this case, (18)fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/co...

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Autores principales: Göksel, Sibel, Akın, Serkan, Akdoğan, Remzi Adnan, Rakıcı, Sema, Abdioğlu, Göksu Yavuz, Ayvaz, Muhammet Ali
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7885282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33586408
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/mirt.galenos.2020.65668
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author Göksel, Sibel
Akın, Serkan
Akdoğan, Remzi Adnan
Rakıcı, Sema
Abdioğlu, Göksu Yavuz
Ayvaz, Muhammet Ali
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Akdoğan, Remzi Adnan
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description Gastric metastasis of choriocarcinoma is rarely reported in the literature. This case report presents the case of multiple metastatic testicular choriocarcinoma mimicking gastric cancer, with melena as the initial symptom. In this case, (18)fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) showed that the testis was the primary focus. The contribution of PET/CT is significant to primary focus detection in metastatic diseases of unknown primary origin that presented gastrointestinal bleeding. In addition to its use in staging of testicular carcinoma, PET/CT provides significant benefit in evaluating patients with increased levels of tumor markers and in detecting recurrence.
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spelling pubmed-78852822021-02-23 (18)F-FDG PET/CT Imaging of Metastatic Testicular Choriocarcinoma Mimicking Gastric Cancer which Initial Symptom is Melena Göksel, Sibel Akın, Serkan Akdoğan, Remzi Adnan Rakıcı, Sema Abdioğlu, Göksu Yavuz Ayvaz, Muhammet Ali Mol Imaging Radionucl Ther Interesting Image Gastric metastasis of choriocarcinoma is rarely reported in the literature. This case report presents the case of multiple metastatic testicular choriocarcinoma mimicking gastric cancer, with melena as the initial symptom. In this case, (18)fluorine-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) showed that the testis was the primary focus. The contribution of PET/CT is significant to primary focus detection in metastatic diseases of unknown primary origin that presented gastrointestinal bleeding. In addition to its use in staging of testicular carcinoma, PET/CT provides significant benefit in evaluating patients with increased levels of tumor markers and in detecting recurrence. Galenos Publishing 2021-02 2021-02-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7885282/ /pubmed/33586408 http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/mirt.galenos.2020.65668 Text en ©Copyright 2021 by Turkish Society of Nuclear Medicine | Molecular Imaging and Radionuclide Therapy published by Galenos Yayınevi. 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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(18)F-FDG PET/CT Imaging of Metastatic Testicular Choriocarcinoma Mimicking Gastric Cancer which Initial Symptom is Melena
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title_short (18)F-FDG PET/CT Imaging of Metastatic Testicular Choriocarcinoma Mimicking Gastric Cancer which Initial Symptom is Melena
title_sort (18)f-fdg pet/ct imaging of metastatic testicular choriocarcinoma mimicking gastric cancer which initial symptom is melena
topic Interesting Image
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7885282/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33586408
http://dx.doi.org/10.4274/mirt.galenos.2020.65668
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