Cardiac metastases of Ewing sarcoma detected by 18F-FDG PET/CT

J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2012 Apr;34(3):236-8. doi: 10.1097/MPH.0b013e318242754d.

Abstract

Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely used in the diagnostic evaluation and staging of different malignant tumors. The role of PET/computed tomographic scan in detecting distant metastases in the workup of Ewing sarcoma in children or young adults is less well defined. We report a case of a boy affected by a metastatic Ewing sarcoma with cardiac asymptomatic metastasis detected by F-FDG PET/computed tomography.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols / therapeutic use
  • Bone Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Bone Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Echocardiography
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18*
  • Heart Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Heart Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Male
  • Multimodal Imaging*
  • Positron-Emission Tomography*
  • Prognosis
  • Radiography, Thoracic
  • Radiopharmaceuticals*
  • Sarcoma, Ewing / drug therapy
  • Sarcoma, Ewing / pathology*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed*

Substances

  • Radiopharmaceuticals
  • Fluorodeoxyglucose F18