Korean J Otorhinolaryngol-Head Neck Surg.  2009 Apr;52(4):373-375. 10.3342/kjorl-hns.2009.52.4.373.

A Case of Synchronous Triple Primary Cancer Undetected by the PET-CT

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  • 1Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Research Institute Medical Science, Chungnam National University College of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea. bskoo515@cnuh.co.kr

Abstract

As diagnosis and treatment methods of malignant tumors have improved, the average length of a patient's life and the opportunity of detecting multiple primary malignant tumors have also increased. Patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck often have multiple cancers, esophageal cancer being the most common associated cancer. FDG PET-CT has become an accepted and widely used imaging modality for detecting the metastasis or multiple primary cancers and for the follow-up in the head and neck cancer. We report an unusual case of synchronous triple primary cancer undetected by the PET-CT with a review of literature.

Keyword

Multiple primary neoplasm; Positron-emission tomography

MeSH Terms

Carcinoma, Squamous Cell
Esophageal Neoplasms
Follow-Up Studies
Head
Head and Neck Neoplasms
Humans
Neck
Neoplasm Metastasis
Neoplasms, Multiple Primary
Positron-Emission Tomography
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell
Head and Neck Neoplasms
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