Diagnosis of Primary Intestinal-Type Adenocarcinoma in the Nasal Cavity by 18F-FDG PET/CT.
A soft-tissue lesion in the left nasal cavity was found on a 70-year-old man, which was pathologically proved to be an intestinal-type adenocarcinoma (ITAC) by biopsy. F-FDG PET/CT scan was performed to exclude the possibilities of metastasis from the other primary adenocarcinomas, but the nasal tumor was found to be the only lesion with F-FDG avidity. The primary ITAC in the nasal cavity was diagnosed, and it was resected successfully.
From the *Department of Nuclear Medicine, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China; †Department of Nuclear Medicine, Dongzhimen Hospital, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China; and ‡Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.
Zhanli
Z
Fu
Jin
J
Zhang
Meng
M
Liu
Ziao
Z
Li
Qian
Q
Li
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D000368:Aged; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009669:Nose Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D000072078:Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals
D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18