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Case Reports
. 2021 Apr 1;46(4):e238-e239.
doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000003289.

An Incidental Uptake of 18F-Choline at PET/CT in Gastric Neuroendocrine Tumor

Laura Evangelista  1 , Gianluca Cassarino  1 , Decio Capobianco  2 , Michele Povolato  2 , Serena Battista  3 , Marco Rensi  2
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Case Reports

An Incidental Uptake of 18F-Choline at PET/CT in Gastric Neuroendocrine Tumor

Laura Evangelista et al. Clin Nucl Med. .

Abstract

We present a case of neuroendocrine tumor localized in the gastric mucosa, incidentally detected by 18F-choline PET/CT in a 69-year-old man with prostate cancer. 18F-choline PET/CT scan showed an increased activity in the stomach, later diagnosed as a well-differentiated neuroendocrine tumor, at biopsy. A careful attention of reading 18F-choline PET/CT images should be made, in order to avoid the missing of potential concomitant neoplasia in patients with prostate cancer.

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