title: Bilateral ovarian metastases from breast carcinoma on FDG PET-CT.
abstract: We report the PET-CT appearance of bilateral ovarian metastases in a 51-year-old woman with a history of right breast carcinoma with osseous metastasis diagnosed 14 years earlier. The colon and stomach are the most common primary tumor sites in ovarian metastasis, followed by the breast, lung, and contralateral ovary. It is important to consider this form of neoplasm in the differential diagnosis because the treatment and prognosis will be different from a dyssynchronous primary tumor.
authors.affiliation: PET Imaging Science Center, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA.
authors.forename: Linh
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ho
authors.forename: Vicki
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Quan
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Henderson
mesh_terms: D001859:Bone Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D016609:Neoplasms, Second Primary / Q000473:pathology; D010051:Ovarian Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D013997:Time Factors; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed