Long-term Trace of Radiation Pneumonitis With 18F-Fluoroestradiol

Clin Nucl Med. 2020 Sep;45(9):e403-e405. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0000000000003178.

Abstract

Radiation pneumonitis (RP) can be an adverse complication of radiotherapy and usually occurs as an acute reaction from 6 to 12 weeks after radiotherapy. FDG PET is described as an early and adequate barometer for RP diagnosis. Only 1 case of fluoroestradiol uptake contemporary of metabolic FDG changes attributed to RP is reported. We report a case of a breast cancer patient with asymptomatic RP, who at 1 year later, at sequelar stage on CT, showed long-term memory of RP by F-fluoroestradiol PET imaging with nonmetabolic FDG PET.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Asymptomatic Diseases
  • Breast Neoplasms / radiotherapy
  • Estradiol / analogs & derivatives*
  • Female
  • Fluorine Radioisotopes*
  • Humans
  • Positron-Emission Tomography*
  • Radiation Pneumonitis / diagnostic imaging*

Substances

  • Fluorine Radioisotopes
  • 1-fluoroestradiol
  • Estradiol
  • Fluorine-18