title: A pulmonary metastasis of a cystosarcoma phyllodes of the breast detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT.
abstract: We describe a pulmonary metastasis of a cystosarcoma phyllodes of the breast (CPB) detected by F-FDG PET/CT. A 65-year-old female patient previously operated on for a cystosarcoma phyllodes of the left breast underwent F-FDG PET/CT for restaging. F-FDG PET/CT showed an area of increased F-FDG uptake corresponding to a 2-cm right pulmonary nodule. Histology suggested the presence of a pulmonary metastasis of CPB.
authors.affiliation: From the *Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT Centre, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Bellinzona, Switzerland; and †School of Medicine, †Institute of Nuclear Medicine, and §Institute of Radiology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.
authors.forename: Giorgio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Treglia
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Muoio
authors.forename: Carmelo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Caldarella
authors.forename: George Koshy
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Parapatt
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary; D064847:Multimodal Imaging; D003557:Phyllodes Tumor / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18