Laudicella Riccardo, Davidzon Guido, Vasanawala Shreyas, Baldari Sergio, Iagaru Andrei
1Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and of Morpho-functional Imaging, Nuclear Medicine Unit, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
2Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.
Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2019 Aug;53(4):296-299. doi: 10.1007/s13139-019-00597-8. Epub 2019 Jun 12.
We described the clinical impact of F-FDG PET/MR in refining the evaluation of a 39-year-old female with newly diagnosed metastatic urethral adenocarcinoma. We detailed the diagnostic imaging workup focusing our attention on the CT, MR, and F-FDG PET/MR different findings. In this case, F-FDG PET/MR imaging evaluation resulted not only effective but also altered staging and spared additional invasive procedures in the assessment of a metastatic urethral adenocarcinoma. Combining a highly sensitive PET with the increase tissue resolution of MR (PET/MR) may improve abdominal and pelvic lesion detection outperforming PET/CT for this indication.
我们描述了18F-氟代脱氧葡萄糖正电子发射断层显像/磁共振成像(18F-FDG PET/MR)在优化一名新诊断为转移性尿道腺癌的39岁女性患者评估中的临床影响。我们详细介绍了诊断性影像学检查,重点关注计算机断层扫描(CT)、磁共振成像(MR)及18F-FDG PET/MR的不同表现。在此病例中,18F-FDG PET/MR成像评估不仅有效,还改变了分期,并且在转移性尿道腺癌评估中避免了额外的侵入性检查。将高灵敏度的PET与MR增强的组织分辨率相结合(PET/MR),在该适应证中可能比PET/CT更能提高腹部和盆腔病变的检出率。