A case of colon cancer incidentally detected by 18F-choline PET/CT

Ferdinando F Calabria; Sonia Crusco; Carmelo Cicciò; Orazio Schillaci

doi:10.1097/RLU.0b013e3182a43045

A case of colon cancer incidentally detected by 18F-choline PET/CT

Clin Nucl Med. 2013 Dec;38(12):982-3. doi: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3182a43045.

Authors

Ferdinando F Calabria¹, Sonia Crusco, Carmelo Cicciò, Orazio Schillaci

Affiliation

¹ From the *Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, IRCCS Neuromed, Pozzilli (IS); †Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology, Hospital F. Veneziale, Isernia; ‡Department of Diagnostic and Molecular Imaging, Interventional Radiology and Radiotherapy, University "Tor Vergata," PTV Foundation, Policlinic "Tor Vergata"; and §Department of Biopathology and Diagnostic Imaging, University "Tor Vergata," Rome, Italy.

PMID: 24097002
DOI: 10.1097/RLU.0b013e3182a43045

Abstract

A 65-year-old man had restaging of prostate cancer with an 18F-choline PET/CT, which revealed focal uptake in a thickened posterior wall of sigmoid colon. Biopsy demonstrated colon cancer. Incidental colorectal 18F-choline uptake should be further investigated with histological analysis.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Aged
Choline / analogs & derivatives*
Colonic Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
Humans
Incidental Findings*
Male
Multimodal Imaging*
Positron-Emission Tomography*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed*

Substances

fluoromethylcholine
Choline