title: Pancreatic metastasis detected by F-18 FDG PET/CT in a patient with breast cancer.
abstract: Pancreatic involvement by metastasis from other primaries is rare and accounts for approximately 2% to 4% of pancreatic tumors. In this article, we describe FDG-avid pancreatic involvement in a patient with diagnosis of breast cancer. We conclude that FDG PET can be a convenient noninvasive method of early detection of recurrence and in monitoring metastatic disease during follow-up in such patients. A positive FDG PET warrants histopathologic correlation for appropriate treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore.
authors.forename: Winnie Wing-Chuen
authors.initials: WW
authors.lastname: Lam
authors.forename: Kelvin Siu-Hoong
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Loke
authors.forename: Hoi Yin
authors.initials: HY
authors.lastname: Loi
authors.forename: Ajit Kumar
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Padhy
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D010190:Pancreatic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000556:secondary*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18