Nogami Munenobu, Tsujikawa Tetsuya, Maeda Hiroyuki, Kosaka Nobuyuki, Takahashi Mizuho, Kinoshita Naoki, Mori Tetsuya, Makino Akira, Kiyono Yasushi, Murakami Takamichi, Goi Takanori, Okazawa Hidehiko
Biomedical Imaging Research Center, University of Fukui, Fukui 910-1193, Japan.
Department of Radiology, Kobe University Hospital, Kobe 650-0017, Japan.
Diagnostics (Basel). 2023 May 25;13(11):1851. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics13111851.
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination is known to cause a diagnostic dilemma due to false-positive findings on [F]FDG PET in vaccine-associated hypermetabolic lymphadenopathy. We present two case reports of women with estrogen-receptor (ER)-positive cancer of the breast who were vaccinated for COVID-19 in the deltoid muscle. [F]FDG positron emission tomography (PET) demonstrated primary breast cancer and multiple axillary lymph nodes with increased [F]FDG uptake, diagnosed as vaccine-associated [F]FDG-avid lymph nodes. Subsequent [F]FES PET revealed single axillary lymph node metastasis in the vaccine-associated [F]FDG-avid lymph nodes. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study showing the usefulness of [F]FES PET in diagnosing axillary lymph node metastasis in COVID-19-vaccinated patients harboring ER-positive breast cancer. Thus, [F]FES PET has potential applications in the detection of true-positive metastatic lymph nodes in patients with ER-positive breast cancer regardless of the ipsilateral or contralateral side, who have received COVID-19 vaccination.
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