小川 悠子
Department School of Medicine(Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital), School of Medicine Position Assistant Professor |
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Article types | Case report |
Language | English |
Peer review | Peer reviewed |
Title | A case of pulmonary tumor embolism diagnosed with respiratory distress immediately after FDG-PET/CT scan. |
Journal | Formal name:Radiology case reports. Abbreviation:Radiol Case Rep ISSN code:19300433 |
Domestic / Foregin | Foregin |
Volume, Issue, Page | 16(3),pp.718-722 |
Author and coauthor | OGAWA Yuko†*, ABE Koichiro, HATA Keisuke, YAMAMOTO Tomoko, SAKAI Shuji |
Authorship | Lead author,Corresponding author |
Publication date | 2021/01/15 |
Summary | Acute distress immediately following an 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG-PET/CT) scan is an exceedingly rare event. We report a case whose condition was suddenly deteriorated in the nuclear medicine laboratory, and whose diagnosis was confirmed by FDG-PET/CT. A 67-year-old woman with left renal cell carcinoma (RCC) suddenly complained of dyspnea and tachycardia just after undergoing FDG-PET/CT. PET/CT images showed increased FDG uptakes in the left renal vein, inferior vena cava, right atrium, and bilateral hila. She was diagnosed with a massive tumor embolism from the inferior vena cava to both pulmonary arteries, and urgently underwent tumor embolectomy. FDG-PET/CT was helpful for diagnosing the tumor embolism and differentiating it from bland thromboembolism in this patient with RCC. |
DOI | 10.1016/j.radcr.2021.01.015. |
PMID | 33510824 |