title: Positron emission tomography: a false negative result in cystic encephalic mestastases from a small cell bronchial carcinoma.
abstract: Lung cancer represents one of the most common malignant diseases. Many investigations are used in the staging study including, most recently, PET. We present a case of cystic cerebral metastases (with no oedema) from a small cell carcinoma which were not detected by PET.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Elda General Hospital, Alicante, Spain. orts_dav@gva.es
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Orts Giménez
authors.forename: Rosa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Jiménez Yáñez
authors.forename: Antonia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Galán Dávila
authors.forename: Gaspar
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Esquerdo Galiana
authors.forename: Eleuterio
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Llorca Martínez
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Belso Candela
authors.forename: Javier
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Mallada
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Llorca Ferrándiz
authors.forename: José Manuel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Cervera
mesh_terms: D001932:Brain Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000556:secondary*; D018288:Carcinoma, Small Cell / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000556:secondary*; D005188:False Negative Reactions; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography