title: Parotid gland metastasis from squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus detected by FDG PET/CT.
abstract: A 55-year-old man was diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma in the middle thoracic esophagus. The FDG PET/CT revealed an incidental strong FDG-avid finding (SUVmax, 11) in the right parotid gland, which was subsequently confirmed as metastasis from the squamous cell carcinoma of esophagus via surgery. The current case adds another differential diagnosis of parotid FDG-avid lesion to the existing literature.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET Center, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Te-Chun
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Hsieh
authors.forename: Yu-Chin
authors.initials: YC
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Shung-Shung
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Chun-Fan
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Chia-Hung
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Kao
mesh_terms: D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000473:pathology*; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D010307:Parotid Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000556:secondary*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18