Fluorine-18 FDG positron emission tomography in advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma Journal Article
| Authors: | Nuñez, R. F.; Yeung, H. W. D.; Chisin, R. |
| Article Title: | Fluorine-18 FDG positron emission tomography in advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma |
| Abstract: | Because patients with advanced nasopharyngeal carcinoma can benefit from adjuvant chemotherapy in addition to chemoradiation, precise staging is important. The extent of disease can be evaluated in a single examination involving a whole-body fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomographic (F-18 FDG PET) scan. A 43-year-old man with nasopharyngeal carcinoma, who had been treated with chemoradiation therapy and then bilateral neck dissection of cervical lymph node metastases, was referred for an F-18 FDG PET scan for staging purposes. In a single study, the whole-body PET scan showed multiple sites of metastases, which were unknown until then. The PET scan findings were confirmed subsequently by a CT scan of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis and by a bone scan. However, two mediastinal adenopathic lesions were not reported on the CT scan. Furthermore, a vertebral metastasis was not revealed on the CT scan. The patient is responding well to chemotherapy. |
| Keywords: | adult; case report; cancer staging; positron emission tomography; radiopharmaceuticals; computer assisted tomography; fluorodeoxyglucose f 18; fluorodeoxyglucose f18; carcinoma; nasopharynx carcinoma; nasopharyngeal carcinoma; nasopharyngeal neoplasms; mediastinum; bone scintiscanning; spine metastasis; tomography, emission-computed; whole body scintiscanning; distant metastases; humans; human; male; article; f-18 fluorodeoxglucose positron emission tomography |
| Journal Title: | Clinical Nuclear Medicine |
| Volume: | 25 |
| Issue: | 9 |
| ISSN: | 0363-9762 |
| Publisher: | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins |
| Date Published: | 2000-09-01 |
| Start Page: | 731 |
| End Page: | 733 |
| Language: | English |
| DOI: | 10.1097/00003072-200009000-00021 |
| PUBMED: | 10983769 |
| PROVIDER: | scopus |
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| Notes: | Export Date: 18 November 2015 -- Source: Scopus |
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