High 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in cardiac tumor: A case report.

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High 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in cardiac tumor: A case report.

Medicine (Baltimore). 2016 Nov;95(44):e4211

Authors: Liu Y, Pang H, Xu L, Liu Q, Li W

Abstract
BACKGROUND: Cardiac tumors, especially malignant, are rare but aggressive tumors that mostly arise from the mesenchymal cells and represent a challenging diagnosis for clinicians. Recently, fluorine-18-fluorodiography positron emission tomography and computed tomography (F-FDG PET/CT) is an increasingly popular new technique with diagnosis of tumor.
METHODS: We report a case of a right heart tumor showing intense uptake of F-fluorodeoxyglucose (F-FDG) on position emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging. We discuss the clinical course and diagnostic evaluations.
RESULTS: The maximal standardized uptake values (SUVmax) for the cardiac and metastatic lesion were 17.2 and 12.9, respectively.
CONCLUSION: F-FDG PET/CT imaging, which enables both morphological characterization and visualization of tumor metabolism, may be an effective and feasible noninvasive method for the diagnosis of malignant cardiac tumors.

PMID: 27858836 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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