PET/CT-Guided Percutaneous Biopsy of Isolated Intramuscular Metastases from Postcricoid Cancer

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology

Kumar G. Kallur¹  Prashanth G. Ramachandra¹  Sridhar P. Susheela¹  Nagaraj K. Ramanna¹  Govindarajan J.I. Mallarajapatna¹ 

[1] Department of Radiology, Bangalore Institute of Oncology and Health Care Global, Bangalore, India Department of Radiology, Bangalore Institute of Oncology and Health Care Global, Bangalore, India Department of Radiology, Bangalore Institute of Oncology and Health Care Global, Bangalore, India

关键词: molecular imaging;    PET/CT;    biopsy;    metastases;   

DOI  :  10.2967/jnmt.109.064709

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Society of Nuclear Medicine

【 摘 要 】

18F-FDG PET/CT has made it possible to identify many unsuspected lesions such as isolated intramuscular metastases because of its ability to detect abnormal metabolic activity in an early stage even without clinical symptoms or morphologic changes. We need to modify our routine techniques for performing biopsies of such lesions because they may not be visualized on morphologic imaging. We describe a technique in which fused PET/CT is used to guide the percutaneous biopsy needle for sampling isolated intramuscular metastatic lesions in a patient whose intramuscular metastases were identified only on PET/CT, not on CT or ultrasound, and were clinically occult.

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