title: Unsuspected axillary lymph node metastasis of nasopharyngeal and cervical cancer on 18FDG PET/CT: a case report.
abstract: Axillary lymph node metastasis (ALNM) from cancer except breast cancer is rare. Whole body 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) that simultaneously offers anatomic and metabolic information is widely used and has become an effective modality in many clinical fields, especially oncology, and also may detect an unexpected metastasis. We report two cases of ALMN of nasopharyngeal and cervical cancer that was detected on whole body PET/CT.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Catholic University of Daegu School of Medicine 3056-6, Daemyung 4-Dong, Nam-Gu, Daegu 705-718, Korea Tel: 82-53-650-4954 E-mail: kufa77@hanmail.net. kufa77@hanmail.net.
authors.forename: Sungmin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kang
mesh_terms: D001365:Axilla; D005260:Female; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D000072078:Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D051598:Whole Body Imaging
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
keywords: 18FDG PET/CT; axillary lymph node metastasis; cervical cancer; nasopharyngeal cancer