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68Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT in Primary Pulmonary Lymphoepithelioma-Like Carcinoma
- Source :
- Clinical Nuclear Medicine. 47:187-189
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health), 2021.
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Abstract
- Primary pulmonary lymphoepithelioma-like carcinomas (LELCs) are extremely rare tumors with better prognosis than other types of lung malignancies. In this case, we present 18F-FDG and 68Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT findings in a 52-year-old woman with pathologically confirmed pulmonary LELC. The pulmonary LELC presented mild 18F-FDG but avid 68Ga-DOTATATE uptake, indicating that the somatostatin receptor 2 may be highly expressed in LELCs. Therefore, 68Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT is a useful tool for tumor detection and initial staging in patients with LELCs.
- Subjects :
- Lymphoepithelioma-like carcinoma
medicine.medical_specialty
Lung Neoplasms
Fluorodeoxyglucose F18
Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography
Organometallic Compounds
medicine
Humans
Somatostatin receptor 2
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
In patient
Ct findings
Radionuclide Imaging
PET-CT
Lung
business.industry
General Medicine
Middle Aged
medicine.disease
Tumor detection
medicine.anatomical_structure
Positron-Emission Tomography
Carcinoma, Squamous Cell
Female
Radiology
68Ga-DOTATATE
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15360229 and 03639762
- Volume :
- 47
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Nuclear Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f6a8338614636e77da455ff95ada6eee
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1097/rlu.0000000000003857