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Cutting-Edge Imaging of Cardiac Metastases from Neuroendocrine Tumors: Lesson from a Case Series
With the increasing availability of high-performance medical imaging for the management of patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs), a progressive growth of asymptomatic and incidentally detected cardiac metastases (CMs) has been observed in the recent years. In clinical practice, CMs of NENs are...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9139778/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35626337 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12051182 |
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author | El Ghannudi, Soraya Ouvrard, Eric Mikail, Nidaa Leroy Freschini, Benjamin Schindler, Thomas H. Imperiale, Alessio |
author_facet | El Ghannudi, Soraya Ouvrard, Eric Mikail, Nidaa Leroy Freschini, Benjamin Schindler, Thomas H. Imperiale, Alessio |
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description | With the increasing availability of high-performance medical imaging for the management of patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs), a progressive growth of asymptomatic and incidentally detected cardiac metastases (CMs) has been observed in the recent years. In clinical practice, CMs of NENs are often incidentally detected by whole-body (68)Ga-labeled somatostatin analogs or (18)F-fluorodihydroxyphenylalanine positron emission tomography/computed tomography, and afterwards accurately characterized by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) and/or gated cardiac computed tomography when CMR is contraindicated or not available. The interpreting physician should familiarize with the main imaging features of CM, a finding that may be encountered in NETs patients more than previously thought. Herein, we present a case series of four patients with CMs from small-intestine NETs highlighting strengths and weaknesses of a multimodality imaging approach in clinical practice. |
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spelling | pubmed-91397782022-05-28 Cutting-Edge Imaging of Cardiac Metastases from Neuroendocrine Tumors: Lesson from a Case Series El Ghannudi, Soraya Ouvrard, Eric Mikail, Nidaa Leroy Freschini, Benjamin Schindler, Thomas H. Imperiale, Alessio Diagnostics (Basel) Brief Report With the increasing availability of high-performance medical imaging for the management of patients with neuroendocrine tumors (NETs), a progressive growth of asymptomatic and incidentally detected cardiac metastases (CMs) has been observed in the recent years. In clinical practice, CMs of NENs are often incidentally detected by whole-body (68)Ga-labeled somatostatin analogs or (18)F-fluorodihydroxyphenylalanine positron emission tomography/computed tomography, and afterwards accurately characterized by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) and/or gated cardiac computed tomography when CMR is contraindicated or not available. The interpreting physician should familiarize with the main imaging features of CM, a finding that may be encountered in NETs patients more than previously thought. Herein, we present a case series of four patients with CMs from small-intestine NETs highlighting strengths and weaknesses of a multimodality imaging approach in clinical practice. MDPI 2022-05-09 /pmc/articles/PMC9139778/ /pubmed/35626337 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12051182 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Brief Report El Ghannudi, Soraya Ouvrard, Eric Mikail, Nidaa Leroy Freschini, Benjamin Schindler, Thomas H. Imperiale, Alessio Cutting-Edge Imaging of Cardiac Metastases from Neuroendocrine Tumors: Lesson from a Case Series |
title | Cutting-Edge Imaging of Cardiac Metastases from Neuroendocrine Tumors: Lesson from a Case Series |
title_full | Cutting-Edge Imaging of Cardiac Metastases from Neuroendocrine Tumors: Lesson from a Case Series |
title_fullStr | Cutting-Edge Imaging of Cardiac Metastases from Neuroendocrine Tumors: Lesson from a Case Series |
title_full_unstemmed | Cutting-Edge Imaging of Cardiac Metastases from Neuroendocrine Tumors: Lesson from a Case Series |
title_short | Cutting-Edge Imaging of Cardiac Metastases from Neuroendocrine Tumors: Lesson from a Case Series |
title_sort | cutting-edge imaging of cardiac metastases from neuroendocrine tumors: lesson from a case series |
topic | Brief Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9139778/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35626337 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/diagnostics12051182 |
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