68Ga-FAPI PET/CT Improves Therapeutic Strategy by Detecting a Second Primary Malignancy in a Patient With Rectal Cancer

Clin Nucl Med. 2020 Jun;45(6):468-470. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000003000.

Abstract

A 71-year-old man with pathologically confirmed rectal cancer underwent F-FDG PET/CT before radical operation, which showed multiple nodules with low uptake in bilateral pleura and 1 solitary pulmonary nodule with slight uptake in left lung. The subpleural nodule was diagnosed as benign lesion through the biopsy. Ga-labeled fibroblast-activation-protein inhibitor PET/CT was performed for further evaluation, which showed low uptake in bilateral subpleural nodules but focally increased uptake in the nodule of left lung. This nodule was found to be a primary lung adenocarcinoma by the CT-guided biopsy. A diagnosis of rectum and lung double primary malignancies was finally made.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma of Lung / diagnostic imaging
  • Aged
  • Biopsy
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Neoplasms, Second Primary / diagnostic imaging*
  • Neoplasms, Second Primary / pathology
  • Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography*
  • Quinolines*
  • Rectal Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*

Substances

  • 68Ga-FAPI
  • Quinolines