http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23510890
Clin Nucl Med. 2013 Mar 18. [Epub ahead of print]
PET/CT Demonstration and Monitoring of Thoracic and Abdominal Wall Mesothelioma.
Source
From the Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Abstract
Mesothelioma is a malignancy arising from the embryonic coelomic mesodermal lining forming the pleura, peritoneum, pericardium, and tunica vaginalis. It is mostly induced by exposure to asbestos. The author presents a 77-year-old woman with an atypical manifestation of epithelioidmesothelioma, which does not follow the expected clinical characteristics of this disease mentioned above. In this case, PET/CT provides useful information concerning the extension of the lesions to thoracic and abdominal walls not fully evaluated by the initial conventional cross-sectional imaging. PET/CT also allows an accurate therapeutic monitoring of the disease.
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