Serendipitous Observation of Hepatic Metastases on (18)F-fluoride PET in a Patient with Infiltrating Ductal Carcinoma of Breast: Correlation with Contrast Enhanced CT

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Journal Clin Nucl Med

Specialty Nuclear Medicine

Date 2012 Nov 17

PMID 23154477

Citations 4

Authors

Sandip Basu

Seema Kembhavi

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Abstract

Serendipitous observation of multifocal bilobar hepatic metastases on F-fluoride (NaF) PET arising in the setting of infiltrating ductal carcinoma of breast is described in the present report. A 46-year-old female patient with infiltrating ductal carcinoma had an F-fluoride PET which demonstrated uptake in multiple skeletal metastasis and several upper abdominal lesions corresponding to liver metastases on contrast enhanced CT. F-NaF uptake in soft tissue metastases are likely to be more frequently encountered with the increasing use of F-NaF PET/CT in oncology.

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