Unsuspected Intramedullary Spinal Cord Metastasis Detected by FDG PET/CT

Intramedullary spinal cord metastases (SCMs) are extremely rare. Here, we report a case of a 60-year-old man with a history of right nonsmall cell lung cancer treated by concomitant radiochemotherapy who complained, 9 months after treatment completion, of chest pain, breath shortness, and more recen...

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Autores principales: Sahel, Omar Ait, Bazine, Amine, Nabih, Salah Oueriagli, Benameur, Yassir, Biyi, Abdelhamid, Doudouh, Abderrahim
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/PMC7905291/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33642767
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijnm.IJNM_150_20
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Sumario:Intramedullary spinal cord metastases (SCMs) are extremely rare. Here, we report a case of a 60-year-old man with a history of right nonsmall cell lung cancer treated by concomitant radiochemotherapy who complained, 9 months after treatment completion, of chest pain, breath shortness, and more recently back pain. An (18)F-FDG PET/CT was performed as part of the restaging process and showed a hypermetabolic mass of the right lung in addition to ipsilateral mediastinal hypermetabolic lymph nodes. There was also an FDG avid lesion of thoracic spinal cord at the T11–T12 level consistent with SCM as confirmed by MRI.

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