title: Pulmonary neuroendocrine tumor incidentally detected by (18)F-CH PET/CT.
abstract: We report the case of a pulmonary neuroendocrine tumor (NET) incidentally detected by F-CH PET/CT performed during restaging in a 68-year-old patient affected by prostate cancer. To clarify the nature of the pulmonary lesion, the patient underwent a CT-guided biopsy which revealed the presence of a pulmonary NET. A subsequent Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT demonstrated the somatostatin receptor expression in the pulmonary lesion. The patient underwent a right lung lobectomy; at pathology, a well-differentiated NET was confirmed. Our case highlights that pulmonary NETs should be considered in the differential diagnosis of pulmonary lesions showing uptake of radiolabeled choline.
authors: Institute of Nuclear Medicine, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy. giorgiomednuc@libero.it
authors: Giorgio
authors: G
authors: Treglia
authors: Filippo
authors: F
authors: Lococo
authors: Gianluigi
authors: G
authors: Petrone
authors: Frediano
authors: F
authors: Inzani
authors: Germano
authors: G
authors: Perotti
authors: Venanzio
authors: V
authors: Porziella
authors: Pierluigi
authors: P
authors: Granone
authors: Guido
authors: G
authors: Rindi
authors: Alessandro
authors: A
authors: Giordano
authors: Vittoria
authors: V
authors: Rufini
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002794:Choline / Q000031:analogs & derivatives*; D006801:Humans; D033162:Incidental Findings; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D018358:Neuroendocrine Tumors / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: C514960:fluorocholine; D002794:Choline