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Case Reports
. 2013 Jan;28(1):28-9.
doi: 10.4103/0972-3919.116810.

Solitary sternal metastasis from hepatocellular carcinoma detected by F-18 FDG PET/CT

Koramadai Karuppusamy Kamaleshwaran  1 , Raghava Kashyap, Anish Bhattacharya, Bhagwant Rai Mittal
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Solitary sternal metastasis from hepatocellular carcinoma detected by F-18 FDG PET/CT

Koramadai Karuppusamy Kamaleshwaran et al. Indian J Nucl Med. 2013 Jan.

Abstract

Fluorine-18 fluoro-deoxy-glucose positron emission tomography (F-18 FDG PET) is not sensitive modality for the diagnosis of primary hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). However, FDG-PET imaging may be useful in the identification of extrahepatic metastases. We report an interesting image of HCC with solitary metastasis to sternum detected by F-18 FDG PET/CT.

Keywords: F-18 FDG; PET/CT; hepatocellular carcinoma; skeleton metastasis.

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Conflict of Interest: None declared.

Figures

Figure 1
Figure 1
F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography images (a) maximum intensity projection shows increased tracer uptake in the primary hepatocellular carcinoma (arrow) and also in the manubrium sternum (curved arrow). Sagittal images (b) computed tomography, (c) positron emission tomography, (d) PET/CT images show FDG uptake in the osteolytic lesion with soft tissue mass in the manubrium sterni with no other abnormal uptake elsewhere in the body. Transaxial PET/CT image (e) of the abdomen shows focal FDG accumulation (arrow) in the periphery of the hypodense lesion, a primary tumour in the liver
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