A pulmonary metastasis of a cystosarcoma phyllodes of the breast detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT

Giorgio Treglia; Barbara Muoio; Carmelo Caldarella; George Koshy Parapatt

doi:10.1097/RLU.0b013e3182815f9b

A pulmonary metastasis of a cystosarcoma phyllodes of the breast detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT

Clin Nucl Med. 2014 Mar;39(3):e233-5. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3182815f9b.

Authors

Giorgio Treglia¹, Barbara Muoio, Carmelo Caldarella, George Koshy Parapatt

Affiliation

¹ From the *Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT Centre, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Bellinzona, Switzerland; and †School of Medicine, †Institute of Nuclear Medicine, and §Institute of Radiology, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome, Italy.

PMID: 23603592
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3182815f9b

Abstract

We describe a pulmonary metastasis of a cystosarcoma phyllodes of the breast (CPB) detected by F-FDG PET/CT. A 65-year-old female patient previously operated on for a cystosarcoma phyllodes of the left breast underwent F-FDG PET/CT for restaging. F-FDG PET/CT showed an area of increased F-FDG uptake corresponding to a 2-cm right pulmonary nodule. Histology suggested the presence of a pulmonary metastasis of CPB.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Breast Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging
Breast Neoplasms / pathology*
Female
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18*
Humans
Lung Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Lung Neoplasms / pathology
Lung Neoplasms / secondary
Multimodal Imaging*
Phyllodes Tumor / diagnostic imaging
Phyllodes Tumor / pathology*
Positron-Emission Tomography*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed*

Substances

Fluorodeoxyglucose F18