TY - JOUR
T1 - To Identify Small Bowel Metastasis From Lobular Breast Cancer on 18F-Fluoroestradiol PET/CT
T2 - Necessary to Adjust the Background Uptake Level
AU - Lu, Yang
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PY - 2023/2/1
Y1 - 2023/2/1
N2 - A 61-year-old woman was incidentally found to have small bowel metastasis from an undiagnosed lobular breast cancer in a workup for her acute presentation of small bowel obstruction. However, outside-hospital mammogram and breast ultrasound failed to reveal primary breast cancer. At 3.5 months postsurgery, the patient transferred her care to our hospital and received initial staging 18F-fluoroestradiol (FES) PET/CT. The occult primary right breast cancer and previously biopsied right axilla lymph node were visualized on FES PET/CT. The intense small bowel uptake of FES was initially considered as physiological; however, after readjusting the background FES level on PET, an intense focus at small bowel anastomosis site became obvious.
AB - A 61-year-old woman was incidentally found to have small bowel metastasis from an undiagnosed lobular breast cancer in a workup for her acute presentation of small bowel obstruction. However, outside-hospital mammogram and breast ultrasound failed to reveal primary breast cancer. At 3.5 months postsurgery, the patient transferred her care to our hospital and received initial staging 18F-fluoroestradiol (FES) PET/CT. The occult primary right breast cancer and previously biopsied right axilla lymph node were visualized on FES PET/CT. The intense small bowel uptake of FES was initially considered as physiological; however, after readjusting the background FES level on PET, an intense focus at small bowel anastomosis site became obvious.
KW - F-fluoroestradiol PET/CT
KW - FES PET/CT
KW - lobular breast cancer
KW - small bowel metastasis
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U2 - 10.1097/RLU.0000000000004402
DO - 10.1097/RLU.0000000000004402
M3 - Article
C2 - 36083216
AN - SCOPUS:85145954737
SN - 0363-9762
VL - 48
SP - 192
EP - 193
JO - Clinical nuclear medicine
JF - Clinical nuclear medicine
IS - 2
ER -