Nucl Med Mol Imaging.  2008 Oct;42(5):414-418.

Hepatocellular Carcinoma with Right Atrial Invasion Detected by PET/CT

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  • 1Department of Internal Medicine, National Police Hospital, Seoul, Korea. minju38@empal.com

Abstract

The role of positron emission tomography (PET) with F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (F-18 FDG) in the diagnosis of hepatocellulcar carcinoma (HCC) has been limited because of a variable FDG uptake in HCC. However, the usefulness of PET/CT for detecting extrahepatic metastasis and monitoring of the treatment response in HCC has been reported. A 55-year-old man with a hepatitis B surface antigen-positive, was admitted to our hospital due to dyspnea, general weakness and body weight loss for one month. Chest X-ray showed multiple reticulo-nodular densities on both lower lung fields, which implies metastatic lesions. F-18 FDG PET/CT revealed consecutively intense hypermetabolic mass in right hepatic lobe, inferior vena cava and right atrium. We report a case of HCC with IVC and right atrium invasion identified by F-18 FDG PET/CT.

Keyword

hepatocellular carcinoma; right atrium invasion; F-18 FDG PET/CT

MeSH Terms

Body Weight
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
Dyspnea
Heart Atria
Hepatitis B
Humans
Lung
Middle Aged
Neoplasm Metastasis
Positron-Emission Tomography
Thorax
Vena Cava, Inferior
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