title: Intramuscular metastasis of carcinoid tumor: a rare manifestation.
abstract: A 43-year-old man presented with a 2-month history of left upper lobectomy due to an atypical lung carcinoid tumor. The patient was referred to our department for further evaluation. An In-111 octreotide (Octreoscan) whole body scan and single photon emission computed tomography were performed. The scans showed slightly increased diffused tracer uptake in the apex of the left lung, most probably due to postoperative changes. A focal area of increased uptake in the right lower abdomen was also noted. Fusing octreotide tomographic construction with CT images allowed accurate determination of the area of increased uptake to be in the right transverse abdominal muscle.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Soroka Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. tiktinskyk@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Ekaterina
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tiktinsky
authors.forename: Tifha
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Horne
authors.forename: Svetlana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Agranovich
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lantsberg
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002276:Carcinoid Tumor / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008297:Male; D019042:Muscle Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000556:secondary; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis; D015282:Octreotide; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / Q000379:methods; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D015282:Octreotide