Utility of different positron emission tomography/computed tomography tracers in the evaluation of incidentally detected dual malignancies: An experience from a tertiary care center

• الحاوية / القاعدة: World Journal of Nuclear Medicine
• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Ram Kumar, Nitin Gupta, Ritu Verma, Ethel Belho
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: الإنجليزية
• منشور في: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2021-10-01
• الموضوعات: dual malignancies; fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography; positron emission tomography/computed tomography tracers; prostate-specific membrane antigen positron emission tomography/computed tomography
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.4103/wjnm.wjnm_153_20
• تدمد: 1450-1147; 1607-3312

Multiple primary malignancies in a cancer patient are not a rare occurrence. The most common presentation of multiple primary malignancies is dual malignancies. The usefulness of different positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) tracers in the evaluation of dual synchronous primary malignancies is not well documented. Here, we present a case series, where two patients, referred for PET/CT, after being diagnosed with one primary malignancy were found to be having a second primary malignancy, diagnosed incidentally in PET/CT, further validated by PET/CT with another tracer.