Carcinoma of unknown primary of neuroendocrine origin: Accurate detection of primary with 68Ga-labelled [1, 4, 7, 10-tetraazacyclododecane-1, 4, 7, 10-tetraacetic acid]-1-NaI3-Octreotide positron emission tomography/computed tomography enterography
Creators
- 1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi (India)
Description
68Ga-labelled [1, 4, 7, 10-tetraazacyclododecane-1, 4, 7, 10-tetraacetic acid]-1-NaI3-Octreotide (68Ga-DOTANOC) positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) is an excellent modality in patients with carcinoma of unknown primary of neuroendocrine origin. Most of the primary lesions are located in mid gut region where the lesions have poor resolution due to undistended and overlapping intestinal loops and motility-related artifacts. Although PET/CT enteroclysis, enterography and colonography have been described with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose, PET/CT enterography with68Ga-DOTANOC has not been described in the literature. Here, we present a case where68Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT enterography was useful in identifying the primary neuroendocrine tumor lesion in small intestine with accurate delineation
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0972-3919.130320; Available from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3996769Additional details
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Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine
- Journal Volume
- 29
- Journal Issue
- 2
- Journal Page Range
- p. 122-123
- ISSN
- 0972-3919
INIS
- Country of Publication
- India
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 46049968
- Subject category
- S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
- Descriptors DEI
- CARCINOMAS; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE; ORIGIN; PATIENTS; POSITRON COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RESOLUTION; SMALL INTESTINE
- Descriptors DEC
- ANTIMETABOLITES; BODY; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM; DISEASES; DRUGS; EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; INTESTINES; NEOPLASMS; ORGANS; TOMOGRAPHY
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- Notes
- PMCID: PMC3996769; PMID: 24761071; PUBLISHER-ID: IJNM-29-122; OAI: oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:3996769; Copyright: (c) Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine; This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.