Detection of an asymptomatic right-ventricle cardiac metastasis from a small-cell lung cancer by F-18-FDG PET/CT

Journal of Thoracic Oncology

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 127-130

  Orcurto, Maria Victoria ^a   Delaloye, Angelika Bischof ^a   Letovanec, Igor ^a   Martins Favre, Martina ^a   Prior, John O ^a  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

18F FDG; Cardiac metastasis; PET; Positron emission computed tomography; Small cell lung cancer

Indexed keywords

CARBOPLATIN; ETOPOSIDE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SIZE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG TUMOR LEVEL; DRUG UPTAKE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART METASTASIS; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICULOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMERUS FRACTURE; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SMALL CELL CANCER; LUNG TUMOR; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MALE; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; MULTIPLE CYCLE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WHOLE BODY CT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FATALITY; HEART TUMOR; HEART VENTRICLE; METASTASIS; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOLOGY; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FATAL OUTCOME; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HEART NEOPLASMS; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; SMALL CELL LUNG CARCINOMA; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 61549105349     PISSN: 15560864     EISSN: 15561380     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JTO.0b013e318189f60e     Document Type: Article

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